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Pirates : the complete history from 1300 BC to the present day

Angus Konstam setssail through the brutal history of piracy, separating myth from legend and fact from fiction. Pirates takes us into the depths of the pirate's dark world, examining the many colorful characters from Cretans and Vikings to French corsairs and the British rogues of the golden age of piracy, such as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd and even two women pirates, Mary Read and Ann Bonny, who became pregnant to avoid execution. A blood-soaked, riveting account, itprovides a complete history of the fearsome threat on the high seas from the marauders in the pages of antiquity to the Somali pirates in the headlines of today
eBook, English, 2011, ©2008
1st Lyons Press pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Lyons Press, Guilford, Conn., 2011, ©2008
History
1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
9780762768356, 0762768355
841514835
Pirates of the ancient world
Medieval pirates
Sea dogs of the renaissance
Mediterranean corsairs
Buccaneers
The golden age
The pirate round
Last of the pirates
Chinese pirates
Modern piracy
Pirates in fiction
The real pirates of the Caribbean
Originally published in the UK in 2008 by Osprey Pub