Download or read book The Pirate Wars written by Peter Earle and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the fascination pirates hold over the popular imagination, Earle takes the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoods and contrasts it with the murderous reality of robbery, torture and death and the freedom of a short, violent life on the high seas.