Ned Low of Boston, who made cannibals of his prisoners . . .
Captain William Kidd, the true story of an innocent pirate . . .
The two women who became pirates and outfought the men . . .
Buccaneer Roberts, the Gentleman Pirate who despoiled Newfoundland . . .
The husband and wife pirates of Nova Scotia . . .
Blackbeard, alias William Teach, the most ferocious pirate of them all . . .
Philip Ashton, whose story surpasses Robinson Crusoe . . .
A successful pirate treasure hunt at Cape Cod . . .
John Quelch, who brought gold to New England to be hanged for it . . .
Thomas Tew of Newport, who was helped by a New York Governor . . .
George Lowther, who operated off the Carolina Coast . . .
Edward Rowe Snow was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, being descended from sea captains, with one exception, for four generations back on both sides of his family. He sailed the ocean highways as a seaman in the forecastle, was an 'extra' in Hollywood, played football and ran track in college, obtained his A.B. at Harvard and his A.M. at Boston University. Enlisting in the air corps at the outbreak of World War II, he was in the African Invasion, where he was wounded and invalided back to England, returning later to America and receiving an honorable discharge. Throughout his unusual life (including being a 'flying Santa'), his paramount interest was the study of the lighthouses, islands, ledges, and shore line around the Boston Bay and the New England Coast.
Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast was published in 1944.
