A Thousand Years of Pirates

From Vikings to conquistadores -- Sea dogs: Looting the looters -- Aristocratic pirates -- Brotherhood of the coast -- To the Indian Ocean -- Woodes Rogers: Privateer to pirate catcher -- On the account -- Twilight of the brotherhood -- Piratical legacy -- Pirates then to now -- Further reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.;From the days of the Vikings to the present and in all the oceans of the world, pirates have made their presence known and feared. Recorded here are their stories along with striking images of ships, storms at sea, and secret harbors where "black ships" could be re-stocked and refitted.