![]() ![]() Walking the plank? A rare occurrence at best. Cunning maps where "X" marks the hiding place of vast treasures? Not even once. Parrots and eye patches? Quite often, yes. Peglegs? True - losing a limb was a common hazard of piracy. Overflowing with stories of wild adventure, it still never wanders into the realm of fantasy. Packed to the gills with names, dates and places, the text never reads like a schoolbook. Under the Black Flag is an immensely readable book that delves equally into the facts and folklore of piracy throughout the ages. Masterworks though these novels may be, they didn't paint an exact portrait of piracy - and yet it is the image that has captured and thrilled many modern audiences with its unquestionable swashbuckling glory.ĭavid Cordingly tries to set the record straight in Under the Black Flag: The Romance & the Reality of Life Among the Pirates. The modern perspective on piracy has been set in stone by works of film and fiction that have followed in the footsteps of early literary characters like Long John Silver of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Captain Hook of J.M. ![]()
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