Trivia / The Pyrates

• Dedication:
  • Fraser dedicated an "Influential Biography" to all the historical figures, authors, and media that inspired him (both fictional and non-fictional)at the end of the book. It included (but is by no means limited to:
    • Peter Pan
    • Daniel Defoe
    • Arthur Conan Doyle (who of all people, wrote a short story collection centered on pirates, ''Tales of Pirates and Blue Water''.)
    • William Dampier, who mapped Australia and was the first man to sail around the world thrice
    • Frederick Marryat, author of The Phantom Ship (1837)
    • Samuel Pepys
    • Rafael Sabatini
    • Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Treasure Island (1934)
    • The Sea Hawk
    • Captain Blood, its 1945 remake, and sequel, The Fortunes of Captain Blood
    • John Masefield
    • Alfred Noyes, author of the poem The Highwayman
    • Lord Byron
    • Rudyard Kipling
• In-Universe Soundtrack:
  • In the above-mentioned bibliography, Fraser explicitly states the work of Erich Wolfgang Korngold as a major source of inspiration. In the final battle detailed a few pages earlier, the book's narrator says that his music ought to be playing in the background, never mind the fact that Korngold's birth was around two centuries into the future!
  • The ending also features the main characters singing "Spanish Ladies".
• Lost Episode: The BBC produced a 1986 adaptation, but it does not currently exist in extant form, if at all.
• Remake: Of Fraser's then-unpublished novel, Captain in Calico, which was later found and published after his death. It even features Calico Jack Rackham and Anne Bonny, who play important roles in both stories.