Books By Angus Konstam, David Rickman - Author

Angus Konstam hails from the Orkney Islands, and is the author of over 50 books, 30 of which are published by Osprey. This acclaimed and widely published author has written several books on piracy, including The History of Pirates and Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate. A former naval officer and museum professional, he worked as the Curator of Weapons at the Tower of London and as the Chief Curator of the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida. He now works as a full-time author and historian, and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. David Rickman is a freelance scholar and illustrator who loves to reconstruct the worlds of the past. He has illustrated nine Osprey titles, four of them for Angus Konstam. His other clients include American national and state parks, museums and historic sites, as well as publishers in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Spain. For 17 years David was in charge of exhibits for Delaware State Parks, where his favorite project was to furnish an American Civil W