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Modern generated interpretation of an Atlantic waterfront, not a reconstruction of a named port.
The Pirate Geek · World history

The pirate world.

Explore pirate crews, ships, ports and life at sea.

AI-generated interpretation · not an archival image

How did pirates
live and work?

How did a company choose its captain? What made a captured ship useful? Where could a crew find water, repairs and a buyer for stolen goods?

These questions connect a person to a vessel, a vessel to a port and a port to routes across several oceans. The library opens in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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Start with
the evidence.

Inside the source method
Interpretive still life of chart work and maritime instruments

A printed narrative, a witness statement and a recovered object do different work. Source notes explain which one supports a claim, and where the record runs out.