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Author : David Cordingly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780861018727
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Pirates written by David Cordingly and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781782123323
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Pirates written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of piracy, discussing the ships, weapons, life at sea, and criminal escapades, and describes famous pirates, myths, and legends.
Author : David Cordingly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437967982
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Pirates: Terror on the High Seas -- from the Caribbean to the South China Sea written by David Cordingly and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates have become the mythical equivalent of giants, vampires, wizards, or witches, and they no longer seem quite real. Yet they definitely were real -- as this first comprehensive, worldwide historical survey makes clear -- and considerably more frightening than Long John Silver or Captain Hook. Piracy has always provided a good opportunity for ruthless men to seek their fortunes. But it was a dangerous calling, and few took up active piracy for more than a decade. This is the definitive story of larger-than-life but all-too-real buccaneers, freebooters, and corsairs who for centuries spread terror all across the briny deep . Over 200 full-color illustrations of pirate art and artifacts. Heavy coated stock. Oversize. Beautifully designed!
Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781602390355
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Pirates: Predators of the Sea written by Angus Konstam and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the real life of pirates from ancient times through the present day, discussing why they became pirates, how they lived, life aboard ship, and how they died.
Author : Joanne Turney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788315642
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Fashion Crimes written by Joanne Turney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion is widely recognised as a site for social acceptance and rejection, and as a signifier of personal identity. What happens when people stray from 'appropriate' dress codes or associate garments with 'respectability' or deviance? How does fashion relate to criminality? In this interdisciplinary volume, leading scholars propose new ways of seeing everyday dress and the body in public space. Garments and individual or group wearers are used as case studies to explore the codification of clothing as criminal – hoodies, trench-coats, Norwegian Lustkoffe sweaters, low-slung trousers and Hip Hop styling are all untangled as garments with criminal significance. The book questions the point at which morality as a form of social control meets criminality, and suggests ways to renegotiate established dress codes and terms such as 'suitability' and 'glamour' through the study of what people wear in response to notions of criminality.
Author : Colin Freeman
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785787039
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea written by Colin Freeman and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Captivating, a John le Carre-esque yarn' Telegraph 'A thoroughly good read' Michael Portillo, author of Portillo's Hidden History of Britain and presenter of Great British Railway Journeys 'A compelling story of courage, determination and skill' Terry Waite CBE, author of Taken on Trust The true story of a retired British army officer's private Somali-hostage rescue mission During the peak of the Somali piracy crisis, three ships - from Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan - were hijacked and then abandoned to their fate by their employers, who lacked the money to pay ransoms. All would still be there, were it not for Colonel John Steed, a retired British military attaché, who launched his own private mission to free them. At 65, Colonel Steed was hardly an ideal saviour. With no experience in hostage negotiations and no money behind him, he had to raise the ransom cash from scratch, running the operation from his spare room and ferrying million-dollar ransom payments around in the boot of his car. Drawing on first-hand interviews, former chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph, Colin Freeman, who has himself spent time held hostage by Somali pirates, takes readers on an inside track into the world of hostage negotiation and one man's heroic rescue mission.
Author : Stephan Talty
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307236617
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Empire of Blue Water written by Stephan Talty and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean [is] a pleasure to read from bow to stern.”—Entertainment Weekly “In Stephan Talty’s hands, the brilliant Captain Morgan, wicked and cutthroat though he was, proves an irresistible hero. . . . A thrilling and fascinating adventure.”—Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance and The Bounty The passion and violence of the age of exploration and empire come to vivid life in this story of the legendary pirate who took on the greatest military power on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades. Awash with bloody battles, political intrigues, natural disaster, and a cast of characters more compelling, bizarre, and memorable than any found in a Hollywood swashbuckler, Empire of Blue Water brilliantly re-creates the life and times of Henry Morgan and the real pirates of the Caribbean.
Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 9781616082703
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (827 download)
Download or read book Pirates: Predators of the Sea written by Angus Konstam and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirate culture has occupied our imaginations for generations. But what were pirates really like? Here, take a tour of piracy from the ancient world through modern times, discovering the truth behind the myths. Perfect for a coffee table and substantial enough for any student of history, Pirates is the total package for anyone with a taste for adventure.
Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437969832
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Pirates: Predators of the Seas written by Angus Konstam and published by . This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the truth behind our myths, fairy-tales, and Hollywood-inspired images of pirates. The reality is, unbelievably, even more intriguing than the flashing swords, talking parrots, and eye patches portrayed in the movies. In this lavishly illustrated tour through history, you can explore the lives of real pirates, such as Blackbeard, Thomas Tew, and Captain Kidd. Find out how, even today, pirates regularly attack and plunder ships. Discover their motivations, diverse backgrounds, daily lives, and codes of conduct. Peek inside pirate ships, trace their journeys on the map, see their bloody battles, and thrill at the daring, brutal ways in which they live and die. ¿Fascinating and colorful, this book dispels falsehoods and illuminates the truth about pirates.¿
Author : Daniel E. Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820328006
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Liberty's Captives written by Daniel E. Williams and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty years following the American Revolution; however, discussions about them have usually focused on accounts of Native American captivities. To most readers, then, captivity narratives are synonymous with "godless savages," the vast frontier, and the trials of kidnapped settlers. This anthology, the first to bring together various types of captivity narratives in a comparative way, broadens our view of the form as it shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination. Included here are accounts by Indian captives, but also prisoners of war, slaves, victims of pirates and Barbary corsairs, impressed sailors, and shipwreck survivors. The volume's seventeen selections have been culled from hundreds of such texts, edited according to scholarly standards, and reproduced with the highest possible degree of fidelity to the originals. Some selections are fictional or borrow heavily from other, true narratives; all are sensational. Immensely popular with American readers, they were also a lucrative commodity that helped to catalyze the explosion of print culture in the early Republic. As Americans began to personalize the rhetoric of their recent revolution, captivity narratives textually enacted graphic scenes of defiance toward deprivation, confinement, and coercion. At a critical point in American history they helped make the ideals of nationhood real to common citizens.
Author : Kate Schatz
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 0399578870
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Rad Women Worldwide written by Kate Schatz and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational and inspirational, this gift-worthy New York Times bestseller from the authors of Rad American Women A-Z, is a bold, illustrated collection of 40 biographical profiles showcasing extraordinary women from across the globe. Rad Women Worldwide tells fresh, engaging, and amazing tales of perseverance and radical success by pairing well-researched and riveting biographies with powerful and expressive cut-paper portraits. The book features an array of diverse figures from 430 BCE to 2016, spanning 31 countries around the world, from Hatshepsut (the great female king who ruled Egypt peacefully for two decades) and Malala Yousafzi (the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize) to Poly Styrene (legendary teenage punk and lead singer of X-Ray Spex) and Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (polar explorers and the first women to cross Antarctica). An additional 250 names of international rad women are also included as a reference for readers to continue their own research. This progressive and visually arresting book is a compelling addition to women's history and belongs on the shelf of every school, library, and home. Together, these stories show the immense range of what women have done and can do. May we all have the courage to be rad! For teachers, this book is appropriate for grades 6-8 and could be used in either Social Studies or English classes, or as part of a text for a multidisciplinary unit. It can also be used as a Common Core text for grades 6-8 Social Studies/History - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.1-10.
Author : Howard Pyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates written by Howard Pyle and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and descriptions of famous pirates and buccaneers.
Author : Oscar Seaworthy
Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781846860621
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Port Side Pirates written by Oscar Seaworthy and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the pirates as they go to sea.
Author : Peter D. Skirbunt
Publisher : Defense Commissary Agency Office of Corporate Communications
ISBN 13 : 9780160817861
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries written by Peter D. Skirbunt and published by Defense Commissary Agency Office of Corporate Communications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Author : Peter D. Skirbunt
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries: The Defense Commissary Agency and its predecessors, since 1989 written by Peter D. Skirbunt and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
Author : Bob Smizik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517070826
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Pittsburgh Pirates written by Bob Smizik and published by . This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE PIRATES (Illustrated) written by Daniel Defoe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE PIRATES – A Detailed Account of the Robberies and Exploits of the Most Notorious Pirates: 4 Books in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A General History of the Pirates contains biographies of early 18th century pirates, which was influential in shaping popular conceptions of pirates. It is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates and the author sticks close to the available sources. The History of the Pirates is a sequel to A General History of the Pyrates and it is considered one of Defoe's most remarkable neglected works. In this volume Defoe records the exploits of pirates who lived a few decades earlier. The book has been hugely influential in shaping popular notions of piracy. The King of Pirates is supposed to be an account of the pirate Henry Avery, known by contemporaries as "The Arch Pirate" and "The King of Pirates", and widely believed stories of Avery's pirate republic. Avery's account is presented in two long letters written by himself, one in Madagascar, and the other during the escape. The Pirate Gow is an account of John Gow, a notorious pirate whose short career was immortalized by Defoe. Gow had a successful career as a pirate around the Iberian Peninsula, but he was captured and hanged in London. Gow also served as the model for Captain Cleveland in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Pirate. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), was an English writer, journalist, and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, and he is considered one of the founders of the English novel.
