In this installment of Read This Book!, Maggie Ragnow discusses books about Pirates – just in time for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which is September 19.

Ragnow shows us a “Letter of Marque” and discusses the following books:

• A General History of the Pryates,
  by Daniel Defoe
• Bucaniers of America
  by Alonso de Bonne-Maison.

About Ragnow and Read This Book!

Ragnow is the Curator of the James Ford Bell Library. Check out the James Ford Bell website for more about pirates, including “Pirate Lingo.”

Read This Book! is a video podcast produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is available on YouTube and iTunes.

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