Our next book is Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber. We’ll be meeting at 7pm, all welcome.

In the authors own words:

‘If nothing else, what l’d like this little experiment in historical writing to bring home is that existing history is not just deeply flawed and Eurocentric, it’s also unnecessarily tedious and boring. There is a surreptitious pleasure in moralism, yes. just as there is a kind of mathematical glee to be found in reducing all human action to self-aggrandizing calculation.

But these are ultimately tawdry pleasures. The real story of what happened in human history is a thousand times more diverting.
Let us tell, then, a story about magic, lies, sea battles, purloined princesses, slave revolts, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms and fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves, poisoners, devil worship, and sexual obsession that lies at the origins of modern freedom. I hope the reader has as much fun as I did.’