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Daniel Defoe, Nathaniel Mist, and the General History of the Pyrates

Arne Bialuschewski · The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 98(1), 21–38 · 2004

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Arne Bialuschewski
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DOI 10.1086/pbsa.98.1.24295828
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedThe attribution of A General History of the Pyrates (1724) to Daniel Defoe, proposed by John R. Moore in 1932, was overturned by Furbank and Owens in 1988, and many historians now regard the author behind the pen name 'Captain Charles Johnson' as unidentified.