Of Captain Mission
by Daniel Defoe · first published 2003
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Of Captain Mission is the first chapter of Volume 2 of A General History of the Robberies and Murder of the Most Notorious Pyrates, first published in 1724. The book was an immediate bestseller, and an expanded edition with Volume 2 was published in 1726. Written when many of the pirates described were still roaming the sea, the stories included vivid descriptions of the famous rogues, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Bartholomew Roberts, along with female pirates, Mary Read and Anne Bonny. In fact, it was this book that established the reputations of many of these pirates. Originally published b
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I highly recommend Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe. And Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs :)
on “A lot we know about pirates is not true, and a lot of what is true is not known” ↗I also recommend Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7779/7779-h/7779-h.htm
on “When slaves and free men were shipwrecked together” ↗…seem funny, given Wikileaks. But there's the argument that right to privacy is inversely proportional to power. So governments should have no privacy. But anyway, do read the book. You might also enjoy Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe.[0,1] It's rather the grandfather of laissez faire. 0) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?n... 1) http://www.fullbooks.com/Of-Captain-Mission.html
on “CIA malware and hacking tools” ↗> I highly recommend Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe. The authorship sometimes attributed to Defoe, but also to a Nathaniel Mist. (It was published under a pseudonym). [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_History_of_the_Pyrat...
on “A lot we know about pirates is not true, and a lot of what is true is not known” ↗Yes, that was his inspiration for the Johnson Family. Another was Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe.[0] 0) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7779
on “The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889” ↗