There's been a few AMAs on /r/askhistorians about piracy from people promoting their books. This one sounds like it would be the closest to what you're asking about: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9gv3ax/iama_history_lecturer_who_is_an_expert_on_the/

Another: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k04tmz/ama_the_golden_age_of_piracy/

Another: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1fpy0w/wednesday_ama_piracy_from_antiquity_to_the_present/

And this is a little tidbit from my local history society. It' hypothesizes that Sir. Francis Drake actually was in Oregon when he came up the Pacific coast and not north of San Francisco. I don't really buy it, but it is fun and she raises some interesting issues about language that kind of highlight the difficulties of assessing what these early explorers meant when they didn't know the languages or the different peoples they were encountering. https://youtu.be/oPq92OMJnBE