Nautical and Pirate History Books?

[BlackFootRoberts]

So i've been researching more and more about the golden age.

So far, i've got about 4-5 books on.

What books do you recommend on it?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Hornblower series all the way!
Also Captain from Connecticut by the same author.

 

[Talisman]

Hope some of these may be of interest to you

Books written at the time:-

A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates - by Capt. Charles Johnson ( sometimes listed as by Daniel Defoe)
Edition edited by Manuel Schonhorn is best but any will do.

The Buccaneers of America - by A O Exquemelin - covers the Jamacian pirates/ privateers of the 1660's to 1680's


General Books about the Pirates & the way they lived:-

Life Among The Pirates ( in USA titled Under the Black Flag) - by David Cordingly
Pirates Adventurers of the High Seas - by David F Marley
Daily Life of Pirates - by David F Marley

Short biographies of Pirates & others associated with them:

Pirates and Privateers of the Americas - by David F Marley ( single volume published 1994) covers period 1650-1700
Pirates of the Americas - by David F Marley ( Two volumes published 2010) updated version of previous book covers period 1650 - 1725.

Both books cover several hundred people

Biographies:

Harry Morgan's Way - by Dudley Pope - biography of Sir Henry Morgan 1635-1684
If a Pirate I Must Be... - by Richard Sanders - biography of Bartholomew Roberts
The Republic of Pirates - by Colin Woodard - covers Blackbeard, Sam Bellamy, Charles Vane and Woodes Rogers ( the Bahamas pirates of the 1710's & 1720's)

History of the Naval Campaign against Piracy:

The Pirate Wars - by Peter Earle

The Law and how it changed:

Pirates of the British Isles - by Joel Baer
Looks at how the laws changed to combat piracy ( removal of trial by jury etc.) - compares the careers of Henry Morgan - William Dampier - Henry Avery - William Kidd - Blackbeard - Bartholomew Roberts.


If you are interested in the original documents of the time ( trail reports- Newspapers - etc.) :-

British Piracy in the Golden Age - History and Interpretation 1660-1730 - edited by Joel H Baer ( 4 volumes - very expensive )

 

[Captain Murphy]

If you want a more technical side to it I can recommend these.
Historic Ship Models
by Wolfram zu Mondfeld
Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail
by Bernard Ireland

Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics, 1650-1815
by Brian Tunstall and Nicholas Tracy

Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-of-War 1600-1860, Based on Contemporary Sources
by John Harland

 

[Jack Rackham]

A Cruising Voyage Round The World
by Woodes Rogers

and fiction, why not
Treasure Island
by R.L Stevenson

if you aint got it.

 

[ANSEL]

And don't forget Captain Marryat. Since he was a navy officer and captain, he knows what
he tells us, from his own life, and some of his books are real good ones.

 

[Talisman]

@BlackFootRoberts

You could also look at this web site:- Colonies, Ships, and Pirates

It belongs to @Captain_Python who wrote the Pirate Naval Tactics pages on the Wiki.

It has a lot of interesting stuff.

 

[ANSEL]

Thes looks very interesting @Talisman , thanks