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The Buccaneers of America
First edition cover
AuthorAlexandre Exquemelin
Original titleDe Americaensche Zee-Roovers
LanguageDutch
PublisherJan ten Hoorn
Publication date
1678
Publication placeNetherlands
Published in English
1684

De Americaensche Zee-Roovers (English: The Buccaneers of America, litterally: The American Sea-Robbers) is the best known book of Alexandre Exquemelin. The subtitle is: "Behelsende een Partinent Verhael van ale de Roverye En Onmenselijcke Vreetheeden die de Engelsche en Franse Roovers Tegens de Spanijaerden in America Gepleeght Hebben" (Dutch: The Buccaneers of America, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (both English and French))