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Nature 443, 622-624 (12 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443622a; Published online 11 October 2006
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Oceanography: The real sea change
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What can pirates' journals and centuries-old cookbooks teach modern-day ecologists? Mark Schrope meets the researchers who trawl history books for deeper insights into marine ecosystems.
In the late 1600s, Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin was busy living up to his extravagant name. In his book The Buccaneers of America, the French-born pirate describes a host of battles and "barbarous inhumanities" through the Caribbean and along the South American coasts.
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