Discusses the history and practices of pirates, covering such aspects as weapons and flags, treasure, tactics and famous Pirates/
Marcus Rediker presents a vivid social history of Atlantic piracy, focusing on its 'golden age' from 1716 to 1726 and emphasizing how common seamen who turned pirate built for themselves a multicultural, democratic and egalitarian society.
A rhyming tale of pirates who go to school accompanied by their parrots, learn arithmetic and letters, and want to hear sea stories at storytime.
New performing edition corrects numerous errors, offers performers the choice of 2 versions of the Act II finale, and gives the first accurate full score of the "Climbing over Rocky Mountain" section.
Ahoy me hearties! Join the Pants Pirates on a special treasure hunt. Grab your cutlass and sail on the Pirate Ship Black Bloomer past angry crocs, sharks in fancy pants and through gurgling swamps on a quest to find the Pants of Gold!
The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution Robert H. Patton ... A Narrative of Joshua Davis , an American Citizen who was Pressed and Served On Board Six Ships of the British Navy . Boston : B. True , 1811 .
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Perfect for storytime read-alouds, this picture book is just right for fans of Three Bears in a Boat, How I Became a Pirate, and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.
Eventually, since such punitive expeditions against pirates hideouts on the coast yielded little satisfactory result, the governor of Hong Kong, Richard Macdonnell, looked for legal measures to drive pirates away from the colony.
A revisionist history of the golden age of piracy draws on original archive records to provide a realistic study of pirates and their lives that refutes many of the myths about the era.
Based in the west-coast town of Penzance, the pirates of Penzance operate in the sea around Cornwall, which had been the territory of the ferocious pirates known as the Killigrews during the seventeenth century (Glinert 796).