About the book: 2010 / Pirates, corsairs, buccaneers, filibusters have long become heroes of adventure books. Often, sea robbers in them appear as romantic heroes who go to sea for happiness due to the fault of circumstances or the injustice of the authorities. However, in reality, the history of piracy, which began in ancient times (Homer speaks about pirates) and continues to this day, is full of terrifying, bloody pages, and the pirates themselves often appear in it as robbers, extortionists and murderers, capturing not only single ships, but also entire ones. cities...Among piracy researchers, a special place rightfully belongs to the German historian Johann Wilhelm von Archenholtz. His two works “Die Geschichte der Flibustier” (“The History of the Filibusters”) and “Die Geschichte der Bukaniere” (“The History of the Buccaneers”), published in Tübingen in 1803 and 1804. and telling about the military operations, customs, morals and daily life of the sea robbers of Spanish America, the Mediterranean, Scandinavia and Denmark, are considered among the best. This edition presents a translation of these books made in the second half of the 19th century. writer and translator K. E. Velsberg.