Are there any photographs of Blackbeard the Pirate?

The enormously successful pirate Edward Thache was not the notorious and villainous"Pirate King" Blackbeard - or Satan"from hell" as Mist wrote him to be,' explained Mr Brooke. 'He was an educated aristocrat, likely grandson of an Anglican minister trained at Oxford. read more

Although Blackbeard is the best known of the Golden Age pirates, he was not the most successful pirate ever to sail the seven seas. Several other pirates were far more successful than Blackbeard. Henry Avery took a single treasure ship worth hundreds of thousands of pounds in 1695, which was far more than Blackbeard took in his whole career. read more

And there are two new television series: “Black Sails,” which premiered in January on Starz, and, launching this winter on NBC, “Crossbones,” which features John Malkovich as Blackbeard and is based on my 2007 nonfiction book, The Republic of Pirates. read more