The Johnson reads more like the ancient biographies - Sallust on Catiline, or Tacitus on Agricola - than anything I'd be comfortable calling historical in the modern sense. But fortunately I'm reading it for flavour, not facts, and Johnson does rather help demonstrate why the pirate mythos grew to be so popular and so widely accepted. :)
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Date: 2007-06-13 04:56 pm (UTC)The Johnson reads more like the ancient biographies - Sallust on Catiline, or Tacitus on Agricola - than anything I'd be comfortable calling historical in the modern sense. But fortunately I'm reading it for flavour, not facts, and Johnson does rather help demonstrate why the pirate mythos grew to be so popular and so widely accepted. :)