Prince Edward Island was largely spared the wrath of the vicious pirates who were known to sail Atlantic waters back in the ...

They pursue their prey using outboard motors instead of oars and tote rocket-propelled grenades instead of cutlasses. But like their peg-legged predecessors, the pirates of today’s headlines–most ...

The ocean is a lonely, perilous place. It is especially so when you are aboard a leak-prone wooden vessel laden with a rich cargo of sugar, silks, and opium, like the traders sailing the Quedagh ...

I‘VE rather a run-of-the-mill collection of books to offer this week, but a few of them are well worth reading, nevertheless. First, I’d recommend “The History of Piracy,” by Philip Gosse, published ...