Buccaneer "memoir."

[John Maddox Roberts]

Just scored a new used-bookstore treasure: the elusive "Memoirs of a Buccaneer," by le Golif. Though this "memoir" is of doubtful authenticity it's a rollicking good read and not easy to find. If le Golif never existed in fact, he should have. Highly recommended.

[capnwilliam]

What era is the book from, mate?

Capt. William

[Charlotte Doyle]

Gawd, I love secondhand bookstores . . . never-ending source of treasure. :) This memoir book sounds delightful, so I'm going to have to try and find a copy of it . . .

[PirateQueen]

I have a copy of this book, it's one of my favorites! The era is the great buccaneering era, roughly the 1660's, during Tortuga's heyday.

[Charlotte Doyle]

I MUST get this book. Christmas break second-hand-book-shop-project for me this year, I think.

[John Maddox Roberts]

Right, le Golif's dates seem to be roughly 1660-80, while the French buccaneers were still at Tortuga though the English buccaneers ("the heretics" ) as le Golif calls them, have moved on to Port Royal. He writes of sailing under l'Ollonois and Mansvelt and was, by his own modest confession, the greatest sailor, pirate, swordsman and lover ever seen in those parts. It may be made up, but it's a hoot anyway. Supposedly translated from a 17th century document found during the cleanup of ruins from the bombing of St. Malo during WWII, for what it's worth.