This preowned, hardback book with 182 pages is in excellent condition.
Written by Aaron Smith with some commentary by Robert Redmond and published by The Lyons Press in 1999. It had originally been published in 1824.
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.
Smith's dramatic account of hispersonal experience is a brutally honest, unromanticized look at piracy in the 19th century.