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Pirates and Piracy E. Keble Chatterton
Dover 2006 0486448606 / 9780486448602 Paperback New Paperback
Pirates and acts of piracy were not limited to the Caribbean Sea and the 16th and 17th centuries but ranged far across time and place. Men of adventure who took to pirating in classical times around the Mediterranean are featured in these stirring true tales of high-seas trachery. ripping narratives of corsairs, freebooters, and privateers, from the Vikings in their longships to the pirates of the Levant and the China Seas, come vividly to life in these swashbuckling, compulsively readable chronicles. Here are riveting accoutns of North Sea brigands, Elizabethan seamen, and Turkish pirates; of notorious plunders like Henry Moran, Edward (Blackbeard) Teach, and Captain Kidd; as well as the pirates of Borneo and China.Enhanced with 16 illustrations, the fascinating text recounts as well the stories of daring men who intercepted enemy ships for king and country, and to enrich their own purses.
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4.95 USD
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