"Bold Privateers is a collection of fascinating stories of the era's notorious privateers. It recalls the exploits of privateer captains, their fortunes and failures, reveals the importance of booty hunting during war.

ROGER MARSTERS, a graduate of Dalhousie University, has been an interpreter at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax and a specialist in marine antiquarian books and documents for a Halifax book dealer. He lives on the shores of the Minas Basin.