Great Pirate Stories

Joseph Lewis French (1858 - 1936)

Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is
a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the
sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a century or
so ago, under one phase or another of piracy. If men were savages on
land they were doubly so at sea, and all the years of maritime
adventure--years that added to the map of the world till there was
little left to discover--could not wholly eradicate the piratical germ.
It went out gradually with the settlement and ordering of the far-flung
British colonies. Great Britain, foremost of sea powers, must be
credited with doing more both directly and indirectly for the abolition
of crime and disorder on the high seas than any other force. But the
conquest was not complete till the advent of steam which chased the
sea-rover into the farthest corners of his domain. It is said that he
survives even today in certain spots in the Chinese waters,--but he is
certainly an innocuous relic. A pirate of any sort would be as great a
curiosity today if he could be caught and exhibited as a fabulous
monster.
(Summary from text)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 00 - Forward James Christopher
00:03:33
Play 01 01 - The Piccaroon Tysto
00:36:54
Play 02 02 - The Capture of Panama ontheroad
00:46:00
Play 03 03 - The Malay Proas Ian Hatley
00:14:26
Play 04 04 - The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers Patrick McHaffie
00:52:54
Play 05 05 - The Daughter of the Great Mogul wendy
00:12:23
Play 06 06 - Barbarossa - King of the Corsairs Marian Martin
00:26:33
Play 07 07 - Morgan at Puerto Bello Varra Unreal
00:15:58
Play 08 08 - The Ways of the Buccaneers Esther
00:09:38
Play 09 09 - A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates, Part 1 Tysto
00:39:28
Play 10 10 - A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates, Part 2 Tysto
00:29:42
Play 11 11 - A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates, Part 3 Timothy Ferguson
00:38:04
Play 12 12 - Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby Patrick McHaffie
00:24:02
Play 13 13 - Francis Lolonois the Slave Who Became a Pirate King Patrick McHaffie
00:40:50
Play 14 14 - The Fight between the Dorrill and the Moca Ernest
00:16:02
Play 15 15 - Jaddi the Malay Pirate Varra Unreal
00:10:42
Play 16 16 - The Terrible Ladrones Marian Martin
00:40:52
Play 17 17 - The Female Captive Ransom
00:30:55
Play 18 18 - The Passing of Mogul Mackenzie Patrick McHaffie
00:25:57
Play 19 19 - The Last of the Sea-Rovers James Christopher
00:11:55