Angus Konstam

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Angus Konstam
Naval history, maritime history, historical atlas, piracy, Blackbeard
Website
www.anguskonstam.com

Angus Konstam (born 2 January 1960) is a Scottish writer of

naval history, historical atlases, with a special focus on the history of piracy.[1]

Early life

Although born in

Aberdeen University Royal Naval Unit, and its tender, HMS Thornham. After receiving an MA degree, he returned to active service with the Royal Navy, during which time he visited many places that would later be written about in his books, including the Caribbean.[2] He also gained useful knowledge of military service, customs, seamanship and navigation during this time.[2] After leaving the service in 1983 he studied for a master's degree at the University of St Andrews.[2][3][5] During this time he explored the new field of maritime archaeology and wrote his thesis on early naval artillery.[2] Two decades later this formed the basis for Sovereigns of the Sea, his history of Renaissance warships.[2][3]

Career

United Kingdom

He left the navy in 1983, and the following year he began a

Russian military.[2] A mutual colleague introduced him to a historian working for Osprey Publishing, who turned out to want someone to write a book about Peter the Great's Army.[2] The result was two small (15,000-word) books which first appeared in 1993 – the first easily accessible account of the foundation of the Russian army to appear in English.[2][6]

United States

Konstam moved to Key West, Florida in 1995 and became the Chief Curator in the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum.[1][4] Mel Fisher was a treasure hunter who found the wreck of the Spanish treasure galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha off the Florida Keys.[7] One of his jobs during this time was to create traveling exhibits which toured the United States.[2] During the research for a pirate exhibition, he became increasingly interested in the subject of 18th century piracy.[2] He spent six years in Key West and wrote several more books, there, including The History of Pirates (2002).[3] As he gained more information through his research, he produced Piracy: The Complete History (2008), and then, to reach a wider audience, The World Atlas of Pirates (2009). In 2019 he published The Pirate World, an adaptation of his 2009 work for the same publisher. Konstam also published a biography of the pirate Blackbeard.

Present

In early 2001 he returned to the United Kingdom, and after living in London and then Edinburgh, he returned to Orkney in 2019. He now resides in Herston in South Ronaldsay.

"talking head" on many cable TV and radio shows, and makes frequent appearances at book festivals and history events.[5][10]

Complete list of works

General

Historical Atlas Series

Osprey Publishing Titles

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Society of Authors". societyofauthors.net.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Konstam, Angus (June 2007). "About Angus" (PDF). anguskonstam.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d e Konstam, Angus (June 2009). "Web Site". anguskonstam.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  4. ^ a b Mike. "Q & A: Angus Konstam". Osprey Publishing. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011.
  5. ^ a b c "Expert Profile". prnewswire.com.
  6. ISBN 978-1-85532-315-5
    .
  7. ^ "The 1622 Fleet". melfisher.org. Archived from the original on 19 April 2007. Retrieved 12 April 2007.
  8. ^ Konstam, Angus. "Amazon Books Author Profile". Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  9. ^ "Angus Konstam, Historian, author and pirate expert". anguskonstam.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  10. ^ "Our Authors". Jenny Brown Associates. Archived from the original on 14 March 2008.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angus_Konstam&oldid=1206903650"