Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

Author(s)

• Frank R. Stockton

Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the author of The Lady or the Tiger?

If you care to read along while listening, the online text features a facsimile version of Buccaneers & Pirates that includes an antique map of the Caribbean which is a nice reference for readers and listeners for islands’ names, ports, hideaways, and buried treasure! (Summary by Denny Sayers)

1. The Bold Buccaneers
2. Some Masters in Piracy
3. Pupils in Piracy
4. Peter the Great
5. The Story of a Pearl Pirate
6. The Surprising Adventures of Bartholemy Portuguez
7. The Pirate who could not Swim
8. How Bartholemy rested Himself
9. A Pirate Author
10. The Story of Roc, the Brazilian
11. A Buccaneer Boom
12. The Story of L'Olonnois the Cruel
13. A Resurrected Pirate
14. Villany on a Grand Scale
15. A Just Reward
16. A Pirate Potentate
17. How Morgan was helped by Some Religious People
18. A Piratical Aftermath
19. A Tight Place for Morgan
20. The Story of a High-Minded Pirate
21. Exit Buccaneer; Enter Pirate
22. The Great Blackbeard comes upon the Stage
23. A True-Hearted Sailor draws his Sword
24. A Greenhorn under the Black Flag
25. Bonnet again to the Front
26. The Battle of the Sand Bars
27. A Six Weeks' Pirate
28. The Story of Two Women Pirates
29. A Pirate from Boyhood
30. A Pirate of the Gulf
31. The Pirate of the Buried Treasure
32. The Real Captain Kidd