The Age of Unreason XIV of France, Emperor Peter the Great of Russia, King Charles XII of Sweden, and Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard. The Age of Unreason The Age of Unreason is a series of four novels written by Gregory Keyes: Its title is a reference to Thomas Paine's treatise "The Age of Reason". The story spans the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, with the action moving between England and France, later involving Russia, Austria, the Republic of Venice, and North America. The author makes use of pseudosciences (scientific alchemy instead of our physics) that were popular at the
James Carnegie (pirate) Carnegie the captured ship, and in trade gave the French captain Carnegie’s "Discovery". Carnegie and Ashworth later had to intervene when the group’s combined crews began arguing over division of spoils. Records do not indicate what happened to Carnegie afterwards. James Carnegie (pirate) James Carnegie (fl. 1716) was a pirate active in the Caribbean. He is best known for sailing alongside Henry Jennings. In March 1716 Henry Jennings, fresh from looting a Spanish treasure fleet which had wrecked the previous year, was granted a privateering commission from Governor Archibald Hamilton of Jamaica. Accompanying him would be fellow captains Samuel Liddell