Stephen Brennan is an editor, teacher, and a New York Times bestselling author. He is the coauthor of The Adventurous Boy's Handbook and The Adventurous Girl's Handbook , and editor of The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told and The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told. He lives in New York.

Anyone who loves a good story full of excitement, adventure, thrills, and laughs will find this massive collection (more than 800 pages!) irresistible. Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates, and their rum-drunk exploits and high-seas violence never fail to delight. Compiled here are more than 100 of the very best pirate yarns ever created on history’s most debaucherous scalawags. The stories, songs, and verses include writing by Daniel Defoe, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and many more. This is 800 pages of true treasure!

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