David Cordingly was for twelve years on the staff of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, where he was curator of paintings and then head of exhibitions. He is a graduate of Oxford, and the renowned author of the definitive book on pirates,
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David Cordingly was for twelve years on the staff of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, where he was curator of paintings and then head of exhibitions. He is a graduate of Oxford, and the renowned author of the definitive book on pirates,
Under the Black Flag, as well as
Seafaring Women and
Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander. Cordingly lives with his wife by the sea in Sussex, England.
From the Hardcover edition.