At the Point of a Cutlass : The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton (Paperback)

from jen.e.moore

I really wanted to like this - I read Ashton's Memorial shortly before this book came out and found it fascinating - but unfortunately this book has a major lack of focus that made it very difficult to get through, even though the main text clocks in at less than 200 pages. Flemming offers a lot ...

from stuart10er

Very interesting book. A hybrid between a scholarly work on pirates, the life and times of Phlip Ashton - a colonial sailor, and how his tales came down to us 300 years later. It seems at times to take off in the narrative as an adventure novel as the story of Ashton that is the core of the work ...

from varielle

It's probably because that I live in North Carolina that I have always had a fondness for pirates, no matter how diabolical. This is a flawed, but pleasant enough account of the history of piracy, taken from one young man's reminiscence of being shanghaied by the pirate Edward Low and forced into...

from WhitmelB

This is a retelling of piracy in the Caribbean with the added fillip of a personal story of the man for whom it has been said, served as the model for Daniel DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe. Whether that was the case or not, it is a good story and certainly outlines the indomitable human spirit. I did fi...

from empress8411

I signed up to receive this book because it's a book about pirates, real pirates. The book was about pirates - but so much more. The author doesn't just relay Ashton's story, but includes the story of those Ashton interacted with - famous pirates, English Naval captains, preachers and other - eac...