Reddit reviews The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630–1730
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"The Sea Rover's Practice" is a great overview of how privateering worked in the age of sail. The book seems very well-sourced, but the focus is on the experience and the techniques of sea raiding and piracy rather than on the biographical details of individual pirates. The author is a former Navy SEAL, and he gleans the historical accounts for technical details as if building a handbook for becoming a pirate himself, or a training manual for his boat crew. He covers every aspect of a pirate voyage from financial investment to executing the raid to wasting the booty in a seaside tavern. The book also serves as a fantastic introduction to maritime life in the period as a whole; you will finish this book with a solid understanding of sailing life.
TL;DR: 10/10, http://i.imgur.com/9KtBsL8.jpg
The history of grog is pretty interesting. This section of the wikipedia article was pulled almost wholecloth from The Sea Rover's Practice, which is a great book, if a bit dry.
British sailors came to be called limeys because the citrus juice of choice was lemons, until inconvenient political alliances limited access to the fruit, and the Brits switched to limes.
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