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  • The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730

  • By: Benerson Little
  • Narrated by: Todd Curless
  • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730

By: Benerson Little
Narrated by: Todd Curless
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Successful sea rovers were careful practitioners of a complex profession that sought wealth by stratagem and force of arms. Drawn from the European tradition, yet of various races and nationalities, they raided both ship and town throughout much of the world from roughly 1630 until 1730. Using a variety of innovative tactics and often armed with little more than musket and grenade, many of these self-described "soldiers and privateers" successfully assaulted fortifications, attacked shipping from small craft, crossed the mountains and jungles of Panama, and even circumnavigated the globe. Successful sea rovers were often supreme seamen, soldiers, and above all, tacticians. It can be argued that their influence on certain naval tactics is felt even today.

The Sea Rover's Practice is the only audiobook that describes in exceptional detail the tactics of sea rovers of the period - how they actually sought out and attacked vessels and towns. Accessible to both the general and the more scholarly listener, it will appeal not only to those with an interest in piracy and in maritime, naval, and military history, but also to mariners in general, tall-ship and ship-modeling enthusiasts, tacticians and military analysts, listeners of historical fiction, writers, and the adventurer in all of us.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

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"Rich in colourful detail, and displays impressive knowledge of sailing and fighting skills." (Naval Review)

"This is a really good book." (Naval War College Review)

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exhaustive list of pirate minusha

If your researching pirate lure for your own projects, this is the book for you. It's not a story, although it has a few but it is very detailed and thorough

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As a lover of pirates I'm satisfied

Not too little not too much, this was a journey through the romantics of every pirate film I ever seen, less a lesson on how to sail and more about how a band of pirates is formed; wealth distributed; crime and punishment; and rules and regulations. A quick skim over the general topic without getting deep enough into fine details as to get boring, just enough. As a fiction writer there's endless resources here to make a story pop as more authentic, and it's an interesting history lesson aside from that. I enjoyed this greatly.

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