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Author:

Chrisp, Peter.

Title:

Pirates / Peter Crisp.

Publisher:

Kingfisher :

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Pirates--Juvenile literature.
Piracy--Juvenile literature.
Pirates--History--Juvenile literature.
Piracy--History--Juvenile literature.
Pirates.
Pirates--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 48) and index.

Contents:

Pirate seas -- Ancient pirates -- Cilician pirates -- A viking raid -- Barbary corsairs -- A corsair galley -- New world -- Buccaneers of Tortuga -- Pirate capital -- A pirate ship -- Life at sea -- Pirate attack! -- Taking a prize -- Hunting Blackbeard -- Female pirates -- Punishing pirates -- Chinese pirates -- Defeat of the junks -- Pirate fiction -- Treasure hunters.

Summary:

This visual guide to piracy shows the daily life of seafarers, their terrifying battles, and treacherous travels across the high seas. From the Caribbean to the South China Sea, meet history's most notorious pirates and find out why some of them came to such a sticky end.

Series:

Navigators.

ISBN:

0753466112 (hbk.)
9780753466117 (hbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)679929493

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)