内容説明
Over the past decade, research in Spanish, French, and Dutch archives, as well as in traditional English repositories, has resulted in a clearer picture of the activities and lives of the pirates who roamed the seas during the "Golden Age of Piracy" from 1650 to 1720. The "Daily Life of Pirates" describes how pirates actually lived, talking about their food and drink, their hideouts, and their humour. It also examines their ships, weapons and seamanship, their plunder - and their use of torture. The book's detailed coverage is made possible by newly uncovered interrogations of pirates and by official depositions given by their victims, both of which provide insights that go well beyond simple recounting of famous exploits. The result is a tantalizing, true picture of pirates' daily lives that reveals many surprising facts, such as the reality that most of their time was spent upon land as actual piracy was a seasonal occupation.
著者について
David F. Marley is an award-winning naval historian who has lived most of his life in Latin America. He has written several of the official catalogs of the maritime collections in the Mexican National Archives, where Spanish colonial documents on piracy are housed. His published works include ABC-CLIO's Pirates of the Americas and Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present.
