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Pirate

Author: Richard Platt; Tina Chambers
Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994.
Series: Eyewitness books
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the dangerous and adventurous life of piracy, privateering, and buccaneering. Superb, full-color photographs of weapons, ships, flags, maps, and treasure offer a unique and revealing view of pirate life on the high seas from the Viking raiders to the buccaneers of the Spanish Main.
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Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Platt; Tina Chambers
ISBN: 0679872558 9780679872559 0679972552 9780679972556 075136035X 9780751360356
OCLC Number: 31331626
Notes: "A Dorling Kindersley book"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Description: 63 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Contents: Robbers of the seas --
Pirates of ancient Greece --
Pirates of the Roman world --
Raiders of the north --
The Barbary Coast --
The corsairs of Malta --
The privateers --
The Spanish Main --
New World privateers --
Navigation and maps --
The buccaneers --
Weapons --
Pirates of the Caribbean --
Women pirates --
The Jolly Roger --
Pirate treasure --
Piracy and slavery --
Life at sea --
Food on board --
Life on land --
Pirates of the Indian Ocean --
Desert islands --
The French corsairs --
American privateers --
Pirates of the China Sea --
Punishment --
The pirates defeated --
Pirates in literature --
Pirates in film and theater.
Series Title: Eyewitness books
Responsibility: written by Richard Platt ; photographed by Tina Chambers.
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Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the dangerous and adventurous life of piracy, privateering, and buccaneering. Superb, full-color photographs of weapons, ships, flags, maps, and treasure offer a unique and revealing view of pirate life on the high seas from the Viking raiders to the buccaneers of the Spanish Main.

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