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Great Pirate Stories

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LibriVox Volunteers

8 Hours 47 Minutes

LibriVox

January 2016

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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)

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  • Anonymous

    I had to miss some of the stories as the narrators were so bad

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  • Anonymous

    Some good tales. However, once aghian some of the readers appeared to have a limited command of English and had not learned the pronouciation of various locations.

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  • John N.

    The accents make listening unbearable

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  • jason s

    It\'s an interesting book if you\'re into that sort of thing. I do wish LibriVox would choose their narrators more carefully. The guy that did section 8 was not very good. It sounded like he was struggling to read. There was another guy that was pretty good. Pat McAfee or something like that. Sorry Pat if I got the last name wrong.

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