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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Edison, NJ :
Chartwell Books, Incorporated,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Pirate attack
- The privateers
- The buccaneers
- 'The richest and wickedest city in the new world'
- The weapons
- The ships
- Life aboard the pirate ships
- Captain Kidd and the lure of the Orient
- The suppression of piracy
- The swashbuckling continues.