David Cordingly

Today most of us know what we know about pirates from classics like "Treasure Island" and the films starring Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley. But who were the real pirates of the Caribbean and where did they come from? And how were they tamed? David Cordingly's latest book reveals the true story to have been at least as fascinating and gripping as the legends.

Queen bee Blair Waldorf is hitting the books -- but is her boyfriend hitting on someone else? The wickedly funny second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the original hit CW show and the HBO Max series. Its brunette vixen Blair Waldorfs seventeenth birthday, and she knows exactly what she wants: Nate, her studly, troubled boyfriend of three years. But Blairs been too busy filling out Ivy League college applications to notice that Nate has found himself another playmate . . .

For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled aboard by officers or seamen. And Cordingly has unearthed stories of a number of young women who dressed in mens clothes and worked alongside sailors for months, sometimes years, without ever revealing their gender. His tremendous research shows that there was indeed a thriving female populationfrom pirates to the sirens of myth and legendon and around the high seas. A landmark work of womens history disguised as a spectacularly entertaining yarn, Women Sailors and Sailors Women will surprise and delight.

For centuries the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters stayed on shore. Oceangoing adventurers and the crews of their ships were part of an all-male world or were they?In this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that in fact an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains. A few were smuggled aboard by officers or seaman. A number of cases have come to light of young women dressing in mens clothes and working alongside the sailors for months, and sometimes years. In the U.S. and Britsh navies, it was not uncommon for the wives of bosuns, carpenters, and cooks to go to sea on warships. Cordinglys tremendous research shows that there was indeed a thriving female population from female pirates to the sirens of legend on and around the high seas. A landmark work of womens history disguised as a spectacularly entertaining yarn, Womens Sailors and Sailors Women will surprise and delight readers.

Esta obra nos presenta muy variados aspectos de la relación entre las mujeres y el mar. Desde las leyendas acerca de las sirenas, hasta las prostitutas de los puertos, pasando por los casos de mujeres marineras, militares, piratas y fareras, el suyo es quiza el mas amplio estudio sobre la materia, un tema, ademas, bastante desatendido hasta la fecha, y un estudio que depara sorpresas incluso a los buenos conocedores de la vida en el mar. La ordenacion del libro por temas, el agil estilo narrativo y la precision en el detalle curioso contribuyen a hacer de esta amena obra un texto fundamental entre los libros sobre el mar.

From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went from laying siege to laying down the law. During Britains war with Spain, Rogers sailed for the crown in sorties against Spanish targets in the Pacific; battled scurvy, hurricanes, and mutinies; captured a treasure galleon; and even rescued the castaway who inspired Robinson Crusoe. Appointed governor of the Bahamas in 1717, the fearless Rogers defended the island colony of King George I against plundering pirates and an attempted Spanish invasion. His resolute example led to the downfall of such notorious pirates as Blackbeard, Calico Jack, and the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. A vividly detailed and action-packed portrait of one of the early eighteenth centurys most colorful characters, Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean serves up history thats as fascinating and gripping as any seafaring legend.

Centrándose en los siglos XVII y XVIII, la edad de oro de la piratería, el autor ha analizado algunos de los tópicos más extendidos acerca de la vida de los piratas, y desentraña cuánto may de verdad y cuanto de mito en la imagen que generalmente tenemos de la pirateria, recurriendo a documentacion de la epoca, declaraciones de denunciantes y de presos...). A partir de alguna escena literaria o cinematografica (de Defoe, Sabatini, Stevenson...), que se ocupa ademas de contextualizar con precision, Cordingly intenta encontrar pruebas que confirmen, rebatan o maticen la imagen que estas obras literarias o cinematograficas nos ofrecen. De este modo, el lector podra descubrir, si las patas de palo y los loros eran habituales en las tripulaciones, entre otras muchas cosas mas.