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Privateers and corsairs

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The Privateer's-Man, One hundred Years AgoFrederick Marryat · 1846An 1846 adventure novel by Captain Marryat, told as a letter transcribing an old sailor's journal. It recounts life aboard the privateer Revenge a hundred years earlier, including cruises, ship captures, and battles in Caribbean waters.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية
The sea-hawkRafael Sabatini · 1915An adventure novel set in Elizabethan England and the Barbary coast, following Sir Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who becomes a renegade corsair. The story is presented as reconstructed from the cranky chronicles of Lord Henry Goade.ENES中文हिन्दीالعربية