‘Captivating’ isn’t a term often applied to non-fiction books, but it aptly describes this account of politics, piracy, and law. It reads more like a novel than nonfiction. What I particularly liked was that Burgess examines colonies and people who rarely get more than a few mentions in other histories of piracy.
Douglas R. Burgess, Jr.
Douglas R. Burgess, Jr. is an assistant professor of Atlantic world history at Yeshiva University and legal history at the Cardozo School of Law in New York. He has authored numerous books, including The Pirate’s Pact: The Secret Alliances Between History’s Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America and World for Ransom: Piracy Is Terrorism/Terrorism Is Piracy.
