Be More Pirate
Or How to Take on the World and Win

Okay, okay, I wrote it. But at times that could have meant I gave it one star. Writing my first book has been a love/hate affair. But now it's finished and about to go to press, we're in love again, I've read the whole thing through and it gets five stars from me. Which is lucky really. If you're int......more

Full disclosure--- Sam is a friend and I was given a preview copy of the book. That being said, I haven't stopped talking or thinking about it. I've underlined bits (which I never do), have shared with friends and am genuinely thinking about it when in meetings and plotting my next project and moves.......more

The book is worth reading for: - pirates have actually lived according to a very progressive code - they had implemented in practice ideas such as equal pay, health insurance, equal voting rights where women and people from all ethnicities voted equally with others - and that happened in the 1690s -......more

An Antidote To Modern Living - The best book I've read so far this year! If we put some of the pirate psychopaths to one side, the pirates had a code which in the in the 17th century would have have been revolutionary in it's day, it is certainly even in the 21st Century, which other organisation ha......more

Sam breaks the mould in more ways than one, with this book. His reinterpretation of history rightly restores the Golden Age pirates to their rightful place as innovators and proponents of equality. Who created an enlightened and progressive society for the times. Many of it’s core principles, we are......more