Great pirate stories: / EDITED /By: Joseph Lewis French / TWO VOLUMES IN ONE /

Joseph Lewis French (1858-1936) was a novelist, editor, poet and newspaper man 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...