Under the Black Flag The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

"Cordingly...has done his research with daunting thoroughness, as a result of which he probably knows more about pirates than anyone else alive. What he has written in 'Under the Black Flag', though, is no pedant's accumulation of archival trivia but a witty, spirited account that is aimed at the serious general reader. It is an exercise in what used to be called 'popular history' and a reminder of just how informative and valuable that much-maligned (by professional historians) genre actually can be.Cordingly, David is the author of 'Under the Black Flag The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates', published 1997 under ISBN 9780156005494 and ISBN 0156005492.