Pirate
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Pirate
（Eyewitness guides, 59）
Dorling Kindersley, 1995
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Expert sailors and ferocious fighters pirates grew rich by hijacking cargoes or enslaving crew. Known also as corsairs picaroons buccaneers and freebooters all were robbers and many were murderers. Yet their recklessness has inspired countless stories songs and plays - today it's hard to separate pirate fact from fiction.Intricate models bring to life the slave galleys of the Baarbary corsairs the great Spanish treasure ships and the sturdy merchantmen who carried cargoes from the East Indies. Discover how privateers got royal permssion to rob foreign vessels. See how pirates lived at sea on land. Learn about the grisly death that awaited those who were caught and tried for their crimes.Pirate is an exciting introduction to the world of sea-thieves - their origins adventures and evil deeds.
Table of Contents
- Robbers of the seas
- early pirates
- Eustace, the Black Monk
- the great age of piracy
- a pirate fleet
- on the attack!
- the Spanish Main
- the privateers
- on the docks
- around the Mediterranean
- French corsairs
- weapons on board
- hoisting the Jolly Roger
- in the China Seas
- American privateers and filibusteros
- slavery
- Treasure Island
- women on board
- pirate life
- pirate treasure
- shipwrecks
- anti-piracy
- measures
- crime and punishment
- piracy today.
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