Peter Earle Quotes

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.

This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.

The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates' greatest scourge, not just in English waters but throughout the world.