Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea
Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea, published in 1911, is one of Charles H. L. Johnston's Famous Leaders books for boys, dedicated to the memory of G. A. Henty. Sixteen chapters tell the lives of men who fought at sea for their country and for profit: Carlo Zeno of Venice, Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, the Frenchmen Jean Bart, Duguay-Trouin and Robert Surcouf, the pirate Edward England, Woodes Rogers, Fortunatus Wright and George Walker, and the Americans John Paul Jones, Silas Talbot, Joshua Barney, Jean Lafitte of the Gulf and the Confederate raider Raphael Semmes. Johnston frames the privateersman as a gentleman adventurer, a protected pirate, and sets a sea poem between the chapters. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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