She married the pirate Zheng Yi in 1801, and when he died, she changed her name to Zheng Yi Sao—sometimes written Ching Shih—and took over his fleet. According to the website Mental Floss, To help her maintain the day-today concerns of ...
When most people think of pirates, they think of buccaneers sailing the seas in search of treasure. However, piracy has changed over time, and many of today's most fearsome pirates work behind computer screens.
From the High Seas to the Digital Age Jennifer Lombardo. Pirates are a common and beloved part of popular culture. Chapter One mediterranean piracy in the ignoring the facts N. treasure, or wear fancy clothes.
"A collection of texts that takes a broad perspective on digital piracy and attempts to capture the multidimensional impacts of digital piracy on capitalist society today"--
From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, ...
By separating the realities of piracy from the Hollywood-inspired fiction, and by tracing the development of piracy through the centuries, this book gives a realistic vision of what piracy actually involves.