The Monarchs of the Main : Volume II (Illustrated) (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

This book is an illustrated version of the original The Monarchs of the Main by George W. Thornbury. “The history of the Buccaneers has hitherto remained unwritten. Three or four forgotten volumes contain literally all that is recorded of the wars and conquests of these extraordinary men. Of these volumes two are French, one Dutch, and one in English. The majority of our readers, therefore, it is probable, know nothing more of the freebooters but their name, confound them with the mere pirates of two centuries later, and derive their knowledge of their manners from those dozen lines of the Abbé Reynal, that have been transferred from historian to historian, and from writer to writer, for the last two centuries.”