Pirates

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

Ha har, me hearties! Jack's gone looking for adventure - and gold. But where on the treasure island could it be? Join Jack on the treasure trail and meet all sorts of fairytale characters - the Owl and the Pussycat, Hansel and Gretel, the Three Billy Goats Gruff, and many others - and help him find his way around some well-loved storybook locations!

ISBN: 9781406305562

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