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My name is Greg Jackson.

I'm a PhD holding historian, a professor and the creator of history that doesn't suck.

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fractious civil war, tenacious inventors, brave reformers, and more.

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When I had the idea to do an episode looking at three books, I wanted to use those books as a jumping off point to look at the influence

that those books had on the world around them.

However, considering the topic that we're going to talk about today, that was really just an impossibility.

Today, we're going to look exclusively at this book, and we're not even going to begin to get through it.

This book, single-handedly, started Europe's love affair with pirates and piracy.

It's the only source on most of the pirates in this generation, and it took men who would have

otherwise been entirely unknown throughout the world and made them famous or at least infamous.

This book went on to make the author quite a wealthy man who had quite a bit of renown of his own. The book we're going to be talking

about today is The Buccaneers of America by Alexander Exchelemelan. This is episode number 16.

Three books, part two.

Now in the Buccaneers of America, the author himself, Alexander of Squimelin, is a character as well.

He's not just the narrator, he plays a role in what's happening in several

parts and he's there all throughout it. So we should look at Exquimalin himself a little bit.

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