The book by immediately starts separating fact from fiction in its introduction and first chapter. During so it covers iconic pirates such as Long John Silver from Treasure Island and Captain Hook from Peter Pan. The author then compared these iconic pirates to real reports on pirates such as a incident in 1825 were a miss Parker described “ pirates killing the eliza-ann crew with the ferocity of cannibals” (pg xv). The book's other chapters began to skip around a bit over the time line of pirates each one was focus either on a specific part of the pirate culture or a story of pirate or a bit of both. The stories covered pirates such as Captian morgan who was considered a noble patriot. Or Anne Bonny a rare female pirate who never got the credit
