Seawolves

Many Scots sought their fortune on the high seas during the turn of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Some became well-respected pirate hunters, other suffered at the hands of pirates. Eric Graham explores all the elements of Scotland's connections with piracy, including the trial that triggered the Act of Union in 1707. It charts the life and times of those who followed the 'skull and cross bones' as often as not, to the gallows.