""L'Histoire de la Piraterie fait revivre, en un récit coloré et authentique, l'épopée sauvage des hors-la-loi de la mer. De l'Antiquité au XXe siècle, sur les grandes routes maritimes, c'est une suite de combats navals, d'attaques à l'abordage, de captures de navires chargés d'or et de marchandises précieuses. C'est aussi une extraordinaire galerie de portraits : Morgan le seigneur, Barbe-Noire le diabolique, Kidd le bourgeois, Roberts le puritain, Misson l'idéaliste, Ann Bonney la femme pirate. Tous nous apparaissent, dépouillés de leur légende suspecte, dans leur véritable dimension. L'un fonde dans une île un état éphémère, l'autre se montre égal aux grands conquérants de l'Histoire, un troisième découvre des terres inconnues, un autre encore se fait le champion de la liberté des peuples. Ils connaissent parfois des destins surprenants, gouverneur ou archevêque ..."
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