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Pirates : an illustrated history /

"Piracy has existed since men first took to the seas to trade. Yet pirates' careers were rarely the swashbuckling epics seen in the movise. Usually they lasted no more than two or three years and often ended ignominiously at the end of a rope. Nigel Cawthorne brings this perilous world to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cawthorne, Nigel, 1951- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edison, NJ : Chartwell Books, Incorporated, 2005.
Subjects:	Pirates > History. Pirates > Histoire. Pirates. History.

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