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Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher : Bibliotech Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories written by Joseph Lewis French and published by Bibliotech Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Pirate Stories is a collection of extracts of tales of pirates (whether fictional or not - there is no clear indication which are and aren't, you would have to look up each original book for that!). The tales range in dates from as early as 1621 to the 19th Century, which results in the use of a great range of styles of English language (the 1621 account might be a little difficult to read for some due to the more arbitrary use of grammar and spelling of the time). Each extract gives a snippet of a particular encounter with pirates, whether from the pirate's perspective and standpoint or that of their victims or onlookers to the events. Each account is short and wets the appetite for more story before suddenly ending - I'm in half a mind to track down each of the original books for more details. Some accounts are quite intriguing and bring to mind a number of questions about the content (anything from the realism to the accuracy could be questioned down to the motives and what exactly did happen next)... This book does not confine itself to European-based pirates (wherever they then roamed), but also brings out accounts of Chinese, Malay and various other less well-known pirate groups (at least less well-known to me, having done little studies of the topic). Some pirate names are quite familiar though, such as Barbarossa or Morgan. If you have an interest in pirates and pirate stories, this book is a good little gem that'll unearth other gems for you. (Carole's Reviews)

Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724431905
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories written by Joseph Lewis French and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French It was a bold hardy world--this of ours--up to the advent of our giant-servant, Steam, --every foot of which was won by fierce conquest of one sort or another. Out of this past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This final niche, despite his crimes, cannot altogether be denied him. A hero he is and will remain so long as tales of the sea are told. which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Great Pirate Stories: Two Volumes in One

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781729305669
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories: Two Volumes in One written by Joseph Lewis French and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French It was a bold hardy world--this of ours--up to the advent of our giant-servant, Steam, --every foot of which was won by fierce conquest of one sort or another. Out of this past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This final niche, despite his crimes, cannot altogether be denied him. A hero he is and will remain so long as tales of the sea are told. which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told

Author : Stephen Brennan
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616082186
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told written by Stephen Brennan and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that includes both well-loved tales and little-known stories about pirates both mythical and real.

The Great Pirate Adventure

Author :
Publisher : Mary Maden Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781890479718
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph L. French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780841443174
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories written by Joseph L. French and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories written by Joseph Lewis French and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537354040
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories written by Joseph Lewis French and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a bold hardy world--this of ours--up to the advent of our giant-servant, Steam, --every foot of which was won by fierce conquest of one sort or another. Out of this past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This final niche, despite his crimes, cannot altogether be denied him. A hero he is and will remain so long as tales of the sea are told. Show Excerpt CONTENTS The Piccaroon 1 From Tom Cringle's Log. By MICHAEL SCOTT. The Capture of Panama, 1671 23 From The Buccaneers of America. By JOHN ESQUEMELING. The Malay Proas 52 From Afloat and Ashore. By JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers 61 From Purchas, His Pilgrims. By SAMUEL PURCHAS. The Daughter of the Great Mogul 89 From The King of the Pirates. By DANIEL DEFOE. Barbarossa--King of the Corsairs 97 From Sea Wolves of the Mediterranean. By E. HAMILTON CURREY, R.N. Morgan at Puerto Bello 115 From The Buccaneers of America. By JOHN ESQUEMELING. The Ways of the Buccaneers 126 From Buccaneer Customs on the Spanish Main. By JOHN MASEFIELD after JOHN ESQUEMELING. A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates 132 From The Buccaneers of America. By HOWARD PYLE, ED. Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby, 1735 196 By CAPTAIN ANSELM. Francis Lolonois, the Slave Who Became a Pirate King 209 From The Buccaneers of America. By JOHN ESQUEMELING. The Fight between the Dorrill and the Moca 232 From The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 49. Jaddi the Malay Pirate 240 From The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 49. The Terrible Ladrones 247 From The Ladrone Pirates. By RICHARD GLASSPOOLE. The Female Captive 276 From an Old Pamphlet, published in 1825. By LUCRETIA PARKER. The Passing of Mogul Mackenzie, the Last of the North Atlantic Pirates 298 From Blackwood's Magazine. By ARTHUR HUNT CHUTE. The Last of the Sea-Rovers: The Riff Coast Pirates 312 From the Nautical Magazine. By W. B. LORD.

Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (654 download)

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Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465523715
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories written by Joseph Lewis French and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a large shallow vessel, coppered to the bends, of great breadth of beam, with bright sides, like an American, so painted as to give her a clumsy mercantile sheen externally, but there were many things that belied this to a nautical eye: her copper, for instance, was bright as burnished gold on her very sharp bows and beautiful run; and we could see, from the bastion where we stood, that her decks were flush and level. She had no cannon mounted that were visible; but we distinguished grooves on her well-scrubbed decks, as from the recent traversing of carronade slides, while the bolts and rings in her high and solid bulwarks shone clear and bright in the ardent noontide. There was a tarpaulin stretched over a quantity of rubbish, old sails, old junk, and hencoops, rather ostentatiously piled up forward, which we conjectured might conceal a long gun. She was a very taught-rigged hermaphrodite, or brig forward and schooner aft. Her foremast and bowsprit were immensely strong and heavy, and her mainmast was so long and tapering, that the wonder was how the few shrouds and stays about it could support it; it was the handsomest stick we had ever seen. Her upper spars were on the same scale, tapering away through topmast, topgallant-mast, royal and skysail-masts, until they fined away into slender wands. The sails, that were loose to dry, were old, and patched, and evidently displayed to cloak the character of the vessel by an ostentatious show of their unserviceable condition; but her rigging was beautifully fitted, every rope lying in the chafe of another being carefully served with hide. There were several large bushy-whiskered fellows lounging about the deck, with their hair gathered into dirty net-bags, like the fishermen of Barcelona; many had red silk sashes round their waists, through which were stuck their long knives, in shark-skin sheaths. Their numbers were not so great as to excite suspicion: but a certain daring, reckless manner, would at once have distinguished them, independently of anything else, from the quiet, hard-worked, red-shirted, merchant seaman.

GREAT PIRATE STORIES - 18 True and Fictional Pirate Adventures

Author : Various
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8828304014
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book GREAT PIRATE STORIES - 18 True and Fictional Pirate Adventures written by Various and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient Hopi proverb states “He who tells stories, rules the world.” Well here is your chance to become a King, or a Queen for a day, or at least, a few hours…… Herein, are 18 true and fictional stories, adventures and accounts of pirates and pirate actions. Stories like The Piccaroon, The Capture of Panama, The Daughter of the Great Mogul, The King of the Pirates, Barbarossa—King of the Corsairs, (Captain) Morgan at Puerto Bello, The Ways of the buccaneers and many, many more. While the majority of these stories occur in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean, a few stories from the Eastern Indian Ocean are included as well. At its highest expression, piracy embodies the romance of the high seas, and, in the main, we have Hollywood’s swashbucklers to thank for this. It is also a sad but inevitable commentary on the attitudes of mankind during the middle-to-late middle ages, that, if men were savages on land, they were doubly so at sea. There may be a certain human perversity in this, for the pirate was, at best, unquestionably a bad person. Piracy was gradually overcome with the settlement and ordering of the far-flung colonies and with the advent of steam power. Even so, romanticised accounts of fictional pirates are included in this volume. Equally so are the true accounts of piratical actions, mainly provided by the Royal Navy. Ours was a bold hardy world, up to the advent of steam,—every foot of which was won by fierce conquest of one sort or another. Out of this past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times, an heroic, figure. This final niche, despite his crimes, cannot altogether be denied to him. A hero he is and will remain so long as tales of the sea are told. So, have at him - in these pages! ============= KEYWORDS/TAGS: folklore, fairy tales, fairytales, legends, myths, children’s stories, fables, bedtime stories, allegories, Piccaroon, Tom Cringle, Log, Capture of Panama, Buccaneers of America, Afloat, Ashore, Wonderful, Fight, Exchange, Bristol, Pirates, Algiers, Purchas, Pilgrims, Daughter, Great Mogul, King of the Pirates, Barbarossa, King of the Corsairs, Sea Wolves, Mediterranean, Captain Morgan, Puerto Bello, Ways of the Buccaneers, Customs, Spanish Main, True, Three Notorious Pirates, Capture, Ship Derby, Francis Lolonois, Slave, Pirate King, Fight. Dorrill, Moca, Indian Antiquary, Jaddi, Malay Pirate, Terrible Ladrones, Passing, Mogul Mackenzie, North Atlantic Pirate, Blackwood's Magazine, Last of the Sea-Rovers, Riff Coast Pirates, Nautical Magazine

Great Pirate Stories

Author : Various
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500995874
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories written by Various and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This ultimate status, despite heinous crimes, cannot altogether be denied to the pirate. This collection of classic pirates stories includes those by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other legendary scribes.

Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492128083
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories written by Joseph Lewis French and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a century or so ago, under one phase or another of piracy. If men were savages on land they were doubly so at sea, and all the years of maritime adventure-years that added to the map of the world till there was little left to discover-could not wholly eradicate the piratical germ.It was a bold hardy world--this of ours--up to the advent of our giant-servant, Steam,--every foot of which was won by fierce conquest of one sort or another. Out of this past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This final niche, despite his crimes, cannot altogether be denied him. A hero he is and will remain so long as tales of the sea are told.The Piccaroon From Tom Cringle's Log. By MICHAEL SCOTT.The Capture of Panama, 1671 From The Buccaneers of America. By JOHN ESQUEMELING.The Malay Proas From Afloat and Ashore. By JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers From Purchas, His Pilgrims. By SAMUEL PURCHAS.The Daughter of the Great Mogul From The King of the Pirates. By DANIEL DEFOE.Barbarossa--King of the Corsairs From Sea Wolves of the Mediterranean. By E. HAMILTON CURREY, R.N.Morgan at Puerto Bello From The Buccaneers of America. By JOHN ESQUEMELING.The Ways of the Buccaneers From Buccaneer Customs on the Spanish Main. By JOHN MASEFIELD after JOHN ESQUEMELING.A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates From The Buccaneers of America. By HOWARD PYLE, ED.Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby, 1735 By CAPTAIN ANSELM.Francis Lolonois, the Slave Who Became a Pirate King From The Buccaneers of America. By JOHN ESQUEMELING.The Fight between the Dorrill and the Moca From The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 49.Jaddi the Malay Pirate From The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 49.The Terrible Ladrones From The Ladrone Pirates. By RICHARD GLASSPOOLE.The Female Captive From an Old Pamphlet, published in 1825. By LUCRETIA PARKER.The Passing of Mogul Mackenzie, the Last of the North Atlantic Pirates From Blackwood's Magazine. By ARTHUR HUNT CHUTE.The Last of the Sea-Rovers: The Riff Coast Pirates From the Nautical Magazine. By W. B. LORD.

The Pirate Bay Collection: History, Trues Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels

Author : Charles Johnson
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11553 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Pirate Bay Collection: History, Trues Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels written by Charles Johnson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 11553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of sea adventure novels and true stories of the most notorious pirates. History of Pirates of the Caribbean: Contents: The King of Pirates: Of Captain Avery, And his Crew Captain Martel Captain Teach, alias Blackbeard Edward England Charles Vane Rackam Mary Read Anne Bonny John Bowen The Trial of the Pirates at Providence The Pirate Gow The Pirates of Panama… Novels & Stories: Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Pirate (Walter Scott) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (Ralph D. Paine) Pieces of Eight (Richard Le Gallienne) The Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe) Jack London: Hearts of Three Tales of the Fish Patrol Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Captain Singleton Jules Verne: The Mysterious Island Facing the Flag The Dark Frigate (Charles Boardman Hawes) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Dealings of Captain Sharkey (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Pirate (Frederick Marryat) The Madman and the Pirate (R. M. Ballantyne) The Pirate City (R. M. Ballantyne) Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader (R. M. Ballantyne) Captain Boldheart& the Latin-Grammar Master (Charles Dickens) The Master Key (L. Frank Baum) A Man to His Mate (J. Allan Dunn) The Isle of Pirate's Doom (Robert E. Howard) Queen of the Black Coast (Robert E. Howard) James Fenimore Cooper: Afloat and Ashore Homeward Bound The Red Rover The Rose of Paradise (Howard Pyle) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) The Ghost Pirates (William Hope Hodgson) The Offshore Pirate (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Harry Collingwood: A Pirate of the Caribbees The Pirate Island Among Malay Pirates (G. A. Henty) Great Pirate Stories (Joseph L. French) Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain (Maturin Murray Ballou) The Dark Frigate (Charles B. Hawes) Kidd the Pirate (Washington Irving) The Death Ship (William Clark Russell) The Iron Pirate (Max Pemberton)…

Davy Jones' Locker: An Ultimate Pirate Collection (80+ Novels & Adventure Stories in One Edition)

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Davy Jones' Locker: An Ultimate Pirate Collection (80+ Novels & Adventure Stories in One Edition) written by Jules Verne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 8480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come along on a great pirate adventure with hand-picked literary classics and true stories about the legendary outlaws: History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Captain Charles Johnson) The Book of Buried Treasure The Pirates' Own Book Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini) Sea Hawk (Sabatini) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces of Eight (Le Gallienne) Captain Singleton (Defoe) Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe) Hearts of Three (Jack London) The Dark Frigate (C. B. Hawes) Isle of Pirate's Doom (Robert E. Howard) Swords of Red Brotherhood (Howard) Queen of Black Coast (Howard) Black Vulmea (Howard) Afloat and Ashore (James F. Cooper) Homeward Bound (Cooper) Red Rover (Cooper) Facing the Flag (Jules Verne) Pirate Gow (Daniel Defoe) The King of Pirates (Defoe) The Pirate (Walter Scott) Rose of Paradise (Howard Pyle) Captain Sharkey (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Pirate (Frederick Marryat) Three Cutters (Marryat) Madman and the Pirate (R. M. Ballantyne) The Offshore Pirate (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Martin Conisby's Vengeance (J. Farnol) Coral Island (Ballantyne) Pirate of Panama (W. M. Raine) Under the Waves (Ballantyne) Pirate City (Ballantyne) Gascoyne (Ballantyne) Captain Boldheart (Dickens) The Ways of the Buccaneers (J. Masefield) Master Key (L. Frank Baum) Black Bartlemy's Treasure (J. Farnol) A Man to His Mate (J. Allan Dunn) Tales of the Fish Patrol (Jack London) Barbarossa—King of the Corsairs (E. H. Currey) Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) Jim Davis (J. Masefield) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) Ghost Pirates (W. H. Hodgson) The Pagan Madonna (H. MacGrath) A Pirate of the Caribbees (H. Collingwood) The Pirate Island (H. Collingwood) The Devil's Admiral (F. F. Moore) The Pirate of the Mediterranean (W. H. G. Kingston) The Black Buccaneer (Stephen W. Meader) The Third Officer (P. Westerman) Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby...

Great Pirate Stories

Author : Joseph Lewis French
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781547276516
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Great Pirate Stories written by Joseph Lewis French and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is undeniably a redoubtable historical figure. It is a curious fact that the commerce of the seas was cradled in the lap of buccaneering. The constant danger of the deeps in this form only made hardier mariners out of the merchant-adventurers, actually stimulating and strengthening maritime enterprise. Buccaneering-which is only a politer term for piracy-thus became the high romance of the seas during the great centuries of maritime adventure. It went hand in hand with discovery, -they were in fact almost inseparable. Most of the mighty mariners from the days of Leif the Discoverer, through those of the redoubtable Sir Francis Drake down to our own Paul Jones, answer to the roll-call.