BOOKS COUNCIL OF WALES BOOK OF THE MONTH April 2003 - ‘an immense work of great scholarship… effectively, a study of the whole genre of piracy… exemplary, yet the writing is light and accessible… wonderful, fascinating detail and essential reading…’ Wales can not only boast the world’s most successful privateer, Admiral Sir Henry Morgan, but also the most successful pirate, ‘Black Bart’ Roberts. Breverton establishes Morgan’s birthplace and upbringing in Llanrumney and details the hundreds of ships taken by the anti-slavery, fearless Roberts and his senior pirates, ‘The House of Lords’. The career of another Pembroke man, Howell Davies, ‘the cavalier prince of pirates’ is examined, along with dozens of other noted Welsh ‘sea-robbers’. 'Tintern's John Callice of the 16th century, Henry VIII's bastard son Sir John Perrot, and Sir Henry Mainwaring, the 17th century's "most famous sea-rover of the day" are included in the list of great pirates and privateers who are hardly known today.'