| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Sub-Saharan Africa

Jan Rogozi

ski . Honor Among Thieves: Captain Kidd, Henry Every, and the Pirate Democracy in the Indian Ocean. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 2000. Pp.xxii, 298. $24.95.

Jan Rogoziski knows a lot about the pirates of the Great Age (c.1680–1720), and he clearly has strong opinions about them and what he regards as their misconstrued legacy. Not a traditional monograph or interpretive essay, the book is rather a pastiche of detailed narrative fragments regarding specific voyages interspersed with the author's dearly held opinions. Binding all of this together is Île St. Marie, off the east coast of Madagascar (or "St. Mary's Island," as it was known in its Anglo-piratical heyday). Here on the western shores of the mighty Indian Ocean a number of famous pirates, among them Henry Every and William Kidd, congregated, careened, and caroused in the couple of decades on either side of the year 1700. The exploits of these men have drawn the interest of multiple authors since Daniel Defoe, and in fact Defoe's work, or at least some of that which has been attributed to him, figures prominently in this book. . . .

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