The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Pirates

✍ Scribed by Gail Selinger; W. Thomas Smith

• Publisher: Alpha
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 411
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Contains fascinating facts about the world's most infamous pirates. Turns vague pirate lore into real pirate history.

✦ Table of Contents

Part 1. Man builds raft, neighbor steals raft. Pirates of popular culture and ancient history --
The next big surge --
The Spanish Main --
England adds her two pence --
Lady pirates in the British Isles --
Part 2. The sweet trade. Buccaneers : how it all began --
Brethren of the coast --
Bloody buccaneers and daring opportunists --
Weighing anchor : why go to sea? --
Joining a pirate crew --
Life aboard a pirate ship --
Weapons to the ready --
Part 3. The golden age of piracy. Flying the skull and crossbones --
The men who sailed the pirate round --
Pirate-friendly cities and islands --
War, peace, and pirates --
Hunting the scourge of the seven seas --
A colorful cast of characters --
Part 4. The end of piracy? Think again. The end draws near --
Barbary corsairs spread terror --
A new nation's privateers help topple corsairs --
Cutthroats of the south seas.

✦ Subjects

История;пираты