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Pirate Utopias by Peter Lamborn Wilson.
I looked at the introduction again and it turns out that PLW is a trust fund dude. Hah.
Anyway, I've made some headway. He's giving a general background of piracy in north Africa, first in Algiers, and now focusing more on Salé, his principal focus. I've been listening to the Pirate History Podcast for the last year or so, and I've just finished his Mediterranean piracy arch (up to episode 100 or so), so it's nice to pick up this book now because it covers similar ground, though Matt Albers barely talks about "Salee" (he's really awful at pronouncing any non-English names). While Wilson's book is not particularly well annotated, he does refer to Marcus Rediker and Christopher Hill amongst other historians, so you know he's read the basic lit here. I noticed that the book was from 1995 – somehow I thought it was from much earlier. The old school type and engravings can give that impression. They make the book rather beautiful. Someone could make a deluxe edition of this book and it would sell like hotcakes. Anyway. More on this later on.
Please note the creation of a pirate book club tag.
Pirate Utopias by Peter Lamborn Wilson.
I looked at the introduction again and it turns out that PLW is a trust fund dude. Hah.
Anyway, I've made some headway. He's giving a general background of piracy in north Africa, first in Algiers, and now focusing more on Salé, his principal focus. I've been listening to the Pirate History Podcast for the last year or so, and I've just finished his Mediterranean piracy arch (up to episode 100 or so), so it's nice to pick up this book now because it covers similar ground, though Matt Albers barely talks about "Salee" (he's really awful at pronouncing any non-English names). While Wilson's book is not particularly well annotated, he does refer to Marcus Rediker and Christopher Hill amongst other historians, so you know he's read the basic lit here. I noticed that the book was from 1995 – somehow I thought it was from much earlier. The old school type and engravings can give that impression. They make the book rather beautiful. Someone could make a deluxe edition of this book and it would sell like hotcakes. Anyway. More on this later on.
Please note the creation of a pirate book club tag.
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