A PIRATE OF EXQUISITE MIND: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM DAMPIER, EXPLORER, NATURALIST AND BUCCANEER

The Spectator | August 21, 2004| | Copyright

The acceptable face of crime A PIRATE OF EXQUISITE MIND: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM DAMPIER, EXPLORER, NATURALIST AND BUCCANEER by Diana and Michael Preston Doubleday, Â£16.99, pp. 372, ISBN 0385607059 Â£14.99 (plus Â£2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848

It was no fun being captured by pirates. Hanging from the yardarm or walking the plank was the least of your worries. According to Alexander Exquemelin's eye-witness account in Buccaneers of America:

Amongst other tortures then used, one was to stretch [the victims'] limbs with cords and at the same time beat them with sticks and other instruments. Others ...

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