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It wasn't always "better in the Bahamas." That tropical archipelago was a pirates' paradise whose "various governors ... conspicuously failed to exert their authority," David Cordingly writes. "Colonel Cadwalader Jones, who arrived in 1690, was regarded as such a useless and 'whimsical' man that he was twice imprisoned and once confined on a ship in the harbor under armed guard."
Mr. Cordingly has written two well-received books, "Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates" and "Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander," a biography of the model for Patrick O'Brian's fictional hero, Jack Aubrey.
That tropical archipelago was a pirates' paradise whose "various governors ... conspicuously failed to exert their authority," David Cordingly writes.
