Pirates

Take a look back at what it was like to be a pirate; find out who they were and how they lived, and learn of their swashbuckling adventures. Discover what it was really like to sail the Seven Seas in a creaking timber sailing ship, to dodge angry naval patrols and capture a Spanish galleon filled with gold and gems. Practical piratical projects show you how to serve up hard tack crackers, make a treasure chest, fashion a cutlass, dress like a pirate captain and much much more. This fascinating and exciting voyage of discovery crosses the centuries and takes you from the Caribbean to the South China Sea on a series of adventures you will never forget. COVER PRICE £6.99

ISBN: 9781844766000

Captain Teachum has a reputation as a wicked and terrible pirate. He has, so his readers are told, led a life of crime: capturing ships, making his enemies walk the plank, and burying stolen treasure all over the world. But then we discover some unexpected secrets about Captain Teachum's home life: he is more than a little hen-pecked, he has twenty five children, and his memory is rather unreliable . . . Hardly surprising, then, that Captain Teachum has not been able to find his buried treasure. So, by the time Captain Teachum's story is finished and we see his mischievous grin as he lies in his hammock, we're left wondering how much of his boastful bluster about past dastardly deeds is true and how much of it is wishful thinking!

ISBN: 9780192727107

In this pop-up pirate adventure, five pirates try to avoid being eaten by a shark when their ship springs a leak. They try to plug the hole with everything from the captain's coat to his rope, but in the end it's their smelly feet that turn the shark away. Each spread features a colorful, intricate pop-up designed by a master paper engineer, and the pop-ups grow more elaborate with each turn of the page.

ISBN: 9780811859233

Ahoy there mateys! Get ready for hours of action packed pirate fun in this amazing book! Fire the cannon, dig for buried treasure and with the help of sturdy pull tabs and moving parts you can join in with all the pirate adventures!

ISBN: 9780230708020

Awash with skulduggery, malice, terror and opportunism, here are 28 first-hand memoirs and contemporary reports of the most famous pirates to sail the seven seas, including Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, 'Calico Jack' Rackham, Alexander Exquemelin, Frances Drake, Anne Bonney, Jean Lafitte and the Joassamee Pirates. The accounts range from the Golden Age of piracy, beginning in the mid 16th century with the birth of the 'buccaneers' in the Caribbean, to more recent times - such as: Francis 'Scourge of Spain' Drake's audacious night treasure raid on Nombre de Dios; the capture of Panama by Henry Morgan, greatest and cruellest of the 'Brethren of the Coast'; Alexander Exquemelin's fly-on-the-wall account of the 'wicked order of pirates, or robbers of the sea'; the apostasy of John Ward and Simon Danser - Christians who served as privateers for the Muslim states of the North African coast; Louis 'Half-Arse' Le Golif, whose buttock was shot away by cannon; "Journal of William Dampier", found stashed in a hollow bamboo tube, having fled life as a Somerset farmer to piracy on the Pacific; Henry Avery's seizure of the Moghul of India's staggering treasure ship Gang-I-sawai.
Plus, this work includes the Pirate's Code of Honour (article 4: lights out at eight o'clock, 'if after that hour any still remained inclined to drinking, to do it on open deck'...); a listing of pirate songs; pirate flags; and a full pirate chronology - all in all, no quarter is spared in this Mammoth-sized collection.

ISBN: 9781845291150

Ahoy there, me hearties! Get ready for hours of pirate fun with this amazing book. Load up the Golden Galleon, set sail and take the pirates off on their adventures! There are 17 pirate magnets to play with, so you can create endless combinations and make your own pictures. The sturdy handle lets you take your magnetic pirate book with you wherever you go!

ISBN: 9780230017115

Be an eyewitness to pirates and their world from their skillful navigation techniques to their bloodthirsty battles.

ISBN: 9780751347494

ISBN: 9780141501901

Elizabeth I was originally dubbed 'the pirate queen' by Philip II of Spain and acknowledged as such by the pope. Extravagant, whimsical, hot-tempered, sexually enticing and the epitome of power, Elizabeth I has never ceased to amaze, entertain, and educate through the centuries. Yet very little has been written, and no books have been dedicated to, Elizabeth I for the financial magician that she was. She played the helpless woman in a man's world to great effect and beleaguered Protestant queen in a predominantly Catholic Europe, using her wiles to exploit every political and social opportunity at hand.Yet her many accomplishments would have never been possible without her daring merchants, gifted rapscallion adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and stalwart Privy Councilors like William Cecil, Francis Walsingham, and Nicholas Bacon. All these men contributed their vast genius, power, greed, and expertise to the rise of England and the foundations of the British Empire. Her foundation of empire was built on a carefully choreographed strategic plan where privateering - piracy to us today - was the expedient method she and her advisors selected to turn her rogue state into the greatest empire the world has ever seen.

ISBN: 9780060820671

When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in eighteenth century West Indies they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But Fate ensures that one night the two young women have to save each other and run away to a life no less dangerous but certainly a lot more free. As pirates they roam the seas, fight pitched battles against their foes and become embroiled in many a heart-quickening adventure. Written in brilliant and sparkling first-person narrative, this is a wonderful novel in which Celia Rees has brought the past vividly and intimately to life.

When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in eighteenth century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But Fate ensures that one night the two young women have to save each other and run away to a life no less dangerous but certainly a lot more free. As pirates, they roam the seas, fight pitched battles against their foes and become embroiled in many a heart-quickening adventure. Written in brilliant and sparkling first-person narrative, this is a wonderful novel in which Celia Rees has brought the past vividly and intimately to life.

ISBN: 9780747559504

Comprises a fun book packed with pirate facts and cartoons, a pull-out poster - fold out sticker scene - two sticker sheets and more than 20 stickers, and a pirates mask.

COVER PRICE £9.99

ISBN: 9781842367162

A great selection of puzzles, games, mazes and colouring-in activites for pirate enthusiasts aged 5 - 9. Games include "Hide and Seek,""I Spy" and "Party Time!"