The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates: Fascinating Facts About the World’s Most Infamous PiratesA view of pirate life—from the crow’s nest. Pirate lore has captured our fancy for centuries. Here is the first series book that gives readers a comprehensive yet entertaining history of those swashbuckling brigands. It offers portraits of such infamous men and women as Blackbeard, Captain Anne Bonny, Captain Kidd, and Jean LaFitte, with a full history of pirates through the ages, even modern day, high-tech scavengers of the South Seas. For mateys young and old. |
Contents
The Next Big Surge | 19 |
The Spanish Main | 31 |
England Adds Her Two Pence | 45 |
Lady Pirates in the British Isles | 67 |
Women Warriors Face to Face | 75 |
The Sweet Trade | 77 |
Brethren of the Coast | 91 |
A Buccaneers Form of Workmens Comp | 98 |
The Men Who Sailed the Pirate Round | 207 |
Explorers and Buccaneers | 222 |
PirateFriendly Cities and Islands | 225 |
War Peace and Pirates | 243 |
Hunting the Scourge of the Seven Seas | 253 |
Enough Is Enough | 265 |
A Colorful Cast of Characters | 269 |
The End of Piracy? Think Again | 283 |
Bloody Buccaneers and Daring Opportunists | 103 |
Bartholomew the Portuguese | 108 |
Why Go to Sea? | 127 |
Joining a Pirate Crew | 145 |
Life Aboard a Pirate Ship | 161 |
Weapons to the Ready | 175 |
The Golden Age of Piracy | 191 |
Barbary Corsairs Spread Terror | 299 |
A New Nations Privateers Help Topple Corsairs | 315 |
Serious About Peace | 323 |
Cutthroats of the South Seas | 333 |
Appendixes | 347 |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates: Fascinating Facts About the World’s ... Gail Selinger,W. Thomas Smith Jr. No preview available - 2006 |
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