2024 50 Book Challenge

Maritime and Pirate History Challenge:
*Have to borrow or buy

1) Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by Jonathan Lamb
2) Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
3) Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer
4) Piracy and the Decline of Venice 1580-1615 by Alberto Tenenti
5) Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate by Harry Kelsey and The Last Fight of the Revenge at Sea by Sir Walter Raleigh
6) Pirates and Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay + Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay + The Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy by Jamie L. H. Goodall
7) Why We Love Pirates and The Pirates' Code by Rebecca Simon
8) Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
9) A General History…of the Most Notorious Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson
10) The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard and Charleston and the Golden Age of Piracy by Chris Downey
11) Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
12) Black Flags, Blue Waters by Eric Jay Dolin
13) The Custom of the Sea by Neil Hanson
14) Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson
15) The Pirate Hunter by Richard Zacks
16) The Pirates Wife by Daphne Geanacopoulos
17) The Trial of Captain Kidd ed. by Graham Brooks
18) A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana & Michael Preston
19) Born to Be Hanged by Keith Thomson
20) The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet and Colonial Virginia's War Against Piracy by Jeremy R. Moss
21) Pirate Queens by Rebecca Alexandra Simon
22) Heroines and Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age of Sail by David Cordingly
23) The Whydah by Martin W. Sandler
24) Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean by David Cordingly
25) If a Pirate I Must Be… by Richard Sanders
26) Longitude by Dava Sobel and The Notorious Edward Low by Len Travers
27) The Island of Blue Foxes by Stephen Brown
28) The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
29) The Pirates' Pact by Douglas Burgess
30) Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by Eric Jay Dolin
31) John Paul Jones by Evan Thomas
32) The Floating Brothel by Sian Rees
33) Caliban's Shore by Stephen Taylor
34) The Bounty by Caroline Alexander and The Eventful History of the Mutiny…of HMS BOUNTY by Sir John Barrow
35) Young Nelsons by D A B Ronald
36) Leviathan by Eric Jay Dolin
37) Narratives of Barbary Captivity by James Leander Cathcart and The Atrocities of the Pirates by Aaron Smith
38) Wreck of the Medusa by Alexander McKee
39) In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
40) Demon of the Waters by Gregory Gibson
41) The Black Joke by A.E. Rooks
42) The Notorious Captain Hayes by Joan Druett
43) Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders by Peter Lehr
44) Erebus by Michael Palin
45) Ghost Ship by Brian Hicks
46) In the Wake of Madness by Joan Druett
47) A Hanging Offense by Buckner Melton
48) All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship by Kathryn Miles
49) In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
50) Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Bonus: The Golden Age of Piracy in China by Robert Antony
Bonus: Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge: A Novel by Lizzie Pook
Bonus: A True Account Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written By Herself by Katherine Howe
Bonus: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry
Bonus: A Gentleman from Japan by Thomas Lockley
Bonus: My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
Bonus: The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
Bonus: This Earthly Globe by Andrea Di Robilant
Bonus: Left for Dead by Eric Jay Dolin
Bonus: A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
Bonus: The Pirate King by Sean Kingsley
Bonus: The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich
Bonus: Shylock's Venice by Harry Freedman
Bonus: The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum by Margalit Fox
Bonus: Dance of the Sun Goddess: Pagan Folkways of the Baltic Coast by Kenneth Johnson
Bonus: Hypnagogia by Michael Simpson
Bonus: Witches and Witch-Hunts Through the Ages by Phil Carradice
Bonus: Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England by Gloria McCahon Whiting

Possible Bonus:
Augustus Harvey’s Journal
The Way of a Ship by Derek Lundy
Ghosts of Cape Sabine by Leonard F. Guttridge
Sailing the Graveyard Sea by Richard Snow
Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book Of The Sea by Terry Breverton
Capt. John Sinclair of Virginia by Claude O. Lanciano
Pirates of the Slave Trade by Angela Sutton
Mutiny on the Rising Sun by Jared Hardesty
A Haunting in the Arctic by C.J. Cooke
The Sailings of Captain Sharkey by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye: A Novel by Briony Cameron
*A Whaler at Twilight by Alexander Brash
*Sons of the Waves by Stephen Taylor
*The Yellow Demon of Fever by Manuel Barcia
*The Golden Age of Piracy: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates ed. by David Head
True Patriots All by Geoffrey Ingleton
The Spanish Treasure Fleets by Timothy Walton
*Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Virginia Voyages by Richard Hakluyt
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zack
William Dampier. Buccaneer Explorer by William Dampier
Captain Ahab Had a Wife by Lisa Norling

Finished reading Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook
Pages: 320
Words: None
Notes: None

Rating: 3 out of 5

Finished reading Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by Jonathan Lamb
Pages: 276
Words: None
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Finished reading A True Account Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written By Herself by Katherine Howe
Pages: 268
Words: ramillie wig
Notes: None

Rating: 5 out of 5

Finished reading Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
Pages: 414
Words: autopsis; Saint Elmo's Fire; williwaw; proa; quintalada
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Finished reading Icebound by Andrea Pitzer
Pages: 273
Words: parhelion
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Finished reading Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry
Pages: 292
Words: None.
Notes: None.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Finished reading Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate by Harry Kelsey
Pages: 399
Words: demesne, messuages, loamy, byre, bederoll, alcalde, deroterro
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Finished reading Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
Pages: 263
Words:
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Finished reading This Earthly Globe by Andrea Di Robilant
Pages: 240
Words: taquyya; stoccafisso
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Finished reading Left for Dead by Eric Jay Dolin
Pages: 259
Words: The Naval War of 1812
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Finished reading Why We Love Pirates by Rebecca Simon
Pages: 233
Words: The History of the Buccaneers of America; matelotage
Notes: "Essentially pirates were people who rejected society and created their own little world on their ships...they were able to cast off all of the social obligations and roles."

What became known as the Boston Tea Party, was a protest a 10% tax on all imported tea. "They were described as acts of riot and piracy...Technically the 200 men were on a body of water and stole a huge amount of goods. Since they destroyed three ships' worth of revenue, then it could be assumed that it was an attack on the British economy. Therefore, pirates."

"Women were certainly allowed on ships. The wives of captains, diplomats and royal governors traveled with no harm done. Women were brought on as healers, tailors, kitchen managers and as sex workers."

"Avery's fortunes peaked in 1695 when he joined forces with other pirates and unified a fleet of 25 ships. Together they sailed east and attacked an Indian ship, the Ganj-I-sawai and its escort, the Fateh Muhammed, taking their vast wealth and treasure. Avery and his squadron captured upwards of 600,000 pounds in coins and jewels which would be worth nearly 9 million today. In just one day, Avery and his men became the richest pirates in the entire world."

"Many pirates also formed romantic relationships with each other. There are documented cases of 17th century pirates who practiced 'matelotage' meaning that they became legally bound to each other. The term comes from the French word 'matelot' which simply means 'sailor.' It became associated with 17th c. Caribbean pirates because they became known for having bonds with each other that were almost like marriage. Two pirates on the same ship could become institutionally linked to each other. It's possible that pirates engaged in matelotage for legal and financial reasons. For all intents and purposes, if a pirate died, his partner would receive his share of the pay, not unlike a widow receiving her late husband's pension. And, of course, it could be because the pair were genuinely in love."

Rating: 4 out of 5

Finished reading A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
Pages: 270
Words: withies, palstaves; aqualung; pithoi, kylix, terebinth, stirrup jar, faience, balance-pan weights, amphora, alabastron, ophthalmoi, meltemi, triremes, kantharoi, ambo, ciborium, changcha ware, periplus, carracks, bandeirantes, moidores
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 3 out of 5

Finished reading Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin
Pages: 312
Words: bar shot; mooncussers: wreckers that prayed for dark and cloudy nights when wrecks were more likely, cursing any bright moonlight; Blackbeard; Captain Kidd
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Finished reading Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson
Pages: 255
Words: mlecchas; strangury; Black and British
Notes: Too many for here.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Finished reading The Pirate King by Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan
Pages: 213
Words: harcoora
Notes: "Copy. Letter from Avery the Pirate. 27:/ Dec.r 10.1700 - The problem Zelinde had reading the Avery letter was that it was written in code...the letter was part of an archive ranging in date from 1497 to 1897 donated by Scotland's Hamilton-Bruce family of Grange Hill and Falkland...Prof. John Bruce, born in 1745, was professor of logic in Edinburgh from 1778 and also a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh."

"His mother died when he was six years old, his father when he was just eleven."

"More than 3000 ministers left the church rather than accept the Act of Uniformity. Another 8000 imprisoned Protestant Dissenters died in jail during the reign of King Charles II."

"O'Bruin was promoted to an admiral, got his 8-year deal on October 30, 1690. The terms were reasonable enough: one third of all treasure salvaged would go to the King of Spain, plus all artillery from Spanish navy vessels discovered underwater...In May 1691 Admiral O'Bruin agreed in writing that 2/3 of the 1000 men hired to service must be Spanish and the rest strictly Roman Catholic...To improve his chances, O'Bruin hired John Strong in 1692, the diving expert who made Phips's wreck salvage a runaway success...Houblon had hedged his bet on the expedition by filling the holds with secret cargo."

"Daniel Foe chased wealth wherever money could be made. He sailed to Ireland in 1689 to sell Porto wine, beer, tobacco, hosiery, and Spanish snuff."

"By now his company included 52 Frenchmen, 14 Danes, and the rest English, Scotch, and Irish."

"Adam Baldridge built Madagascar's first wooden fort in January 1691, after fleeing the authorities when he murdered a man in Jamaica...It became a supply base to chase Spanish Manila galleons across the Pacific in the 1680s...Baldridge bought Indian cloth, Chinese silks, calico cloth, drugs, spices, diamonds, gold and hard currency and sold everything from clothes, rum and gunpowder to gardening tools and Bibles...Wine was bought eagerly on Sainte-Marie at 15x higher than the price in New York."

"The Dutch East India Company started rounding up Africans in Madagascar in the late 1650s to sell to plantations on Mauritius, Batavia and Cape Town. The French needed slaves too for their new colony on Bourbon (present-day Reunion), over 100 nautical miles west of Sainte-Marie Island, and the English for St. Helena and Sumatra in far-off Indonesia."

"Enslaved Malagasy were run into British colonies in the West Indies, Massachusetts, and New York from the 1670s, disrupting the Royal African Company's command of the transatlantic slave trade."

"The peacock throne, valued by a French jeweler at 6 million, was studded with precious gems and the largest diamond ever seen. The Badshahi Masjid, which Aurangzeb paid for, its doors able to welcome 60,000 worshipers was the largest mosque in the world...India's top exports were cotton textiles, raw silk from Bengal, pepper from Kerala, saltpeter, rice, and sugar from Bengal, alongside cheaper hull fillers of indigo, wax, coconut goods, ginger and tumeric."

"Henry Avery, now an admiral of a flotilla of 440 men and six ships - including Thomas Tew's Amity, Joseph Farrell's Portsmouth Adventure, Richard Want's Dolphin, William May's Pearl, and Thomas Wake's Susanna..."

"21 of the Mughal emperor's subjects were killed, including Nur Muhammad and his bodyguard, Seyyid Yusuf and his concubines, and Muhammad Yusuf Turabi. Twenty more were wounded, not least the spiritual teacher Muhammad the Blessed."

"By way of Ascension Island, the pirates voted to head for America, where their names and faces were unknown."

"The earliest account of the princess, shared by a Pennsylvania merchant 2 years after the event in Sept 1697, agreed she was preparing to be married off and that the crew of the Fancy "killed most of the men and threw her overboard."

"Daniel Smith and Benjamin Griffin settled in Bermuda. Seven of Avery's crew married in New Providence and bribed Nicholas Trott to sign royal pardons."

"The emperor condemned the company as pirates and, in turn, blockaded their port in Bombay, forcing the English to prostrate themselves and pay an imperial fine of 150,000 rupees in 1690."

"Captain Robert Sneed, commissioner of peace in PA, was one of the first colonial authorities to get his hands on a copy of the warrant at the end of April 1697...Sneed knew full well that some of Avery's crew were living in Philadelphia, including Robert Clinton, Edmond Laselle, Peter Clay, and James Brown."

Rating: 3 out of 5

Finished reading Pirates Queens by Rebecca Alexandra Simon
Pages: 139
Words: None.
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 5 out of 5

Finished reading Colonial Virginia's War Against Piracy by Jeremy Moss
Pages: 106
Words: None.
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Finished reading Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
Pages: 244
Words: The Four Years Voyages of Capt George Roberts; ruse de guerre; "jolie rouge"; granado shells; woolding; Piratical Barbarity or The Female Captive
Notes: Too many for here.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5