Discover the history behind everyone's favourite villain, from the golden age of piracy to the present. Pirates, those desperate men and (some notorious women) who sought fame and fortune, often led short but exciting lives laced with rum and debauchery...

A compendium of fascinating information about the great waters that cover two-thirds of our Earth and the men and women that sailed them.

The drama and tragedy behind history's most infamous shipwrecks.

The first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land.