Adapted [technically, abridged] from Frank R. Stockton's Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coast. This original book had 32 stories; this book retained 18 of the original 32 stories.

The true stories—some humorous, some bloodcurdling, all fascinating—of the famous sea-going scoundrels who plundered North America from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.

And there are the stories of many lesser-known brigands and cutthroats, including two lady pirates whose cutlasses and pistols were as deadly as any man's

Abridged from the dust jacket of the 1967 Macmillan reprint edition