Pirates: Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to the South China Sea (A Worldwide Illustrated History)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1572152648
ISBN 13
9781572152649
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Pages
256
Description
The popular image of pirates today-the combined effect of three centuries of books, plays, operas, films, cartoons, and children's games-is extraordinarily powerful.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 abundantly clear-and considerably more frightening historically than Long John Silver or Captain Hook. The barnacled sea dogs featured in this fascinating volume well deserved their reputations for bravery, hard drinking, avarica, foul language-and casual violence and cruelty. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
