About the book: year / Pirates, corsairs, buccaneers, filibusters have long become heroes of adventure books. Often, sea robbers in them appear as romantic heroes who go to sea for happiness due to the fault of circumstances or the injustice of the authorities. However, in reality, the history of piracy, which began in ancient times (Homer speaks about pirates) and continues to this day, is full of terrifying, bloody pages, and the pirates themselves often appear in it as robbers, extortionists and murderers, capturing not only single ships, but also entire ones. cities... Among researchers of piracy, a special place rightfully belongs to the German historian Johann Wilhelm von Archenholtz. His two works, “The History of the Filibusters” and “The History of the Buccaneers,” were published in Tübingen in 1803 and 1804. and telling about the military operations, customs, morals and daily life of the sea robbers of Spanish America, the Mediterranean, Scandinavia and Denmark, are considered among the best. This collection presents a translation of these books, as well as the works of many other authors who cover in detail and comprehensively the history of this phenomenon of human civilization. Contents: 1. Sam Conniff Allende: Being a Pirate (Translation: Valentina Feoklistova)2. F Archenholtz: History of the filibusters (Translation: K Welsberg)3. F Arhenholtz: History of sea robbers 4. Rudolf Balandin: Famous sea robbers. From Vikings to Pirates 5. Roman Belousov: Secrets of Famous Pirates, or “Dead Man's Chest” 6. Igor Mozheiko: Pirates, Corsairs, Raiders 7. Daniel Defoe: General History of Pirates (Translation: Igor Malsky)8. Dmitry Kopelev: The Golden Age of Sea Robbery 9. Edward Kritzler: Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean (Translation: Michael Borodkin)10. Jean Merien: Encyclopedia of Piracy (Translation: E. Pecherskaya)11. Igor Mozheiko: Pirates, corsairs, raiders 12. Howard Pyle: Pirates of the South Seas (Translation: D. Popov)13. Nicolas Perrier: Pirates: 14. Arseny Grigorievich Ragunshtein: Pirates under the banner of Islam. Maritime robbery in the Mediterranean in the 16th - early 19th centuries 15. Ernesto Frers: Pirates and Templars (Translation: M. Sotskova)16. Anonymous Aspar: Heinz Neukirchen. Pirates 17. Mikhail Tsiporukha: Under the black flag. Chronicles of piracy and corsairing 18. Alexander Shirokorad: Russian pirates 19. Alexander Shirokorad: Admirals and corsairs of Catherine the Great 20. A. O. Ekskvemelin: Pirates of America (Translation: V. Andronov)21. Charles Elms: Pirates. Stories about famous robbers (Translation: E. Lamanova)