The real Master and Commander 'There is no man I envy so much as Lord Cochrane' Lord Byron

'There is no man I envy so much as Lord Cochrane' Lord Byron

Entertaining, popular but also serious account of pirates and pirate life by the acknowledged expert on the subject.

Under fourteen captains, the ship Bellerophon played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794); the battle of the Nile (1798); and the battle of Trafalgar (1805). This book presents the story of an eighteenth-century fighting ship - known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian.

Geoff Hunt is known to millions of readers across the world as the artist responsible for the covers of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, and for those of Julian Stockwin's Thomas Kydd books. This book covers the artist's inspirations, techniques, interpretations and primary research.

This history looks at women in the traditionally male domain of maritime life. There is Mary Patten who took command of a vessel and sailed it around Cape Horn at the age of 19. And Anne Bonny, who, disguised as a man, became a fearsome pirate before being sentenced to the gallows.

This is the story of the Bellerophon - a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian - from her birth in a small shipyard on the river Medway in 1782, a few years before the French Revolution, to her death, after service as a prison hulk, in a breaker's yard 54 years later.

Traces piracy from the seas of antiquity to the New World and beyond. An authoritative, and memorable portrait of the fascinating world of pirates.