"In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka 'Wild Bill,' is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American ex-patriots. Holbert's

Roger is too jolly to be a pirate. He does not scowl, growl, or strike fear into sailors' hearts like his pirate friends. So poor Roger is sent away whenever th

"Nine-year-old Roger is a miserable landlubber with a bad-tempered mother. So when he sees a poster for a cabin boy to join the pirates, he jumps at the chance

"An account of piracy through three millenia, in histories of women and men sailing on four seas. Writing with passion and humour, but without romanticizing or

"One warship. One mission. Confederation Commander Jon T. Munro was serving a life sentence for a war crime he was forced to commit, left to take the fall for t