Download or read book The Buccaneer s Realm written by Benerson Little and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1674, it is three years since Henry Morgan’s pirates sacked Panama. England is now at peace with Spain, and soon France, Holland, and Spain will briefly be at peace among themselves. But soon buccaneers and their French counterparts, the filibusters, will seize the opportunity of material gain presented by the far-flung and failing Spanish Empire. And Spain will produce its own notorious pirates, whose depredations against the English and French will become legend. These men of opportunistic calculation and desperate courage live in a wilder, larger, and richer time and place than any other frontier in modern history—the Spanish Main. Unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, unabashedly, they will take to the peaceful seas for riches by force of arms. The world will witness piracy on a grand scale. While Benerson Little’s previous work showed brilliantly how pirates actually plied their trade, The Buccaneer’s Realm focuses on their cultural and physical environments. It describes not merely their deeds but their world—the New World of the Spanish Main and its many peoples, freedoms, dangers, and exploits that are the foundation of the Americas. A detailed and lively description of pirate life, it will especially appeal to readers with an interest in maritime, naval, military, and colonial history, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and armchair adventurers.
Download or read book The Black Buccaneer written by Stephen Warren Meader and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One morning in 1718, Jeremy Swan was left by his father to tend their sheep on an island off the coast of Maine. By the time his father returned the next morning, the seventeen year old had been kidnapped by pirates who had been using the island as a base, and taken along to the West Indies.
Download or read book The Buccaneer s Bones written by Chris Mould and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crampton Rock is a peaceful fishing village on a remote island, accessible only at low tide. But Stanley has awoken the ghostly world of long dead and buried pirates - and they are heading to meet him ... Originally published under the title 'The Silver Casket'.
Download or read book Pirates Buccaneers other Scallywags Swashbucklers A Complete Film Guide written by Terry Rowan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive film guide depicting films about the pirates that roamed the seven seas. Interesting facts on actors and other personal that made these films possible. A special look at these swashbucklers and their way of life throughout history. Included are other historical classic films.
Download or read book The King s Buccaneer written by Raymond E. Feist and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recovered from the ravages of the Riftwar, the land and people of the kingdom of the Isles thrive. Nicholas, the youngest son of Prince Arutha, is intelligent and gifted but vastly inexperienced. In hopes of hardening him, his father sends him and his irreverent squire, Harry, to live at Rustic Castle Crydee to learn of life beyond the halls of privilege. But within weeks of Nicholas and Harry's arrival, Crydee is viciously attacked by unknown assailants, resulting in murder, massive destruction, and the abduction of two young noblewomen. The raiders have come from a pirate haven and are no ordinary foe ... but an enemy connected to dark magical forces that threaten the lands Nicholas will someday rule -- if he survives.
Download or read book Cinema of Swords written by Lawrence Ellsworth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema of Swords is a history, guide, and love letter to over four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and solves their problems with the point of a sword. Though swordplay thrives as a mainstay of current pop culture—whether Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings or Star Wars—swashbuckling was if anything even more ubiquitous during Hollywood’s classic period, from its foundations in the Silent Era up through the savage bursts of fantasy films in the ‘80s. With this huge cinematic backlist of classics now available online and on-demand, Cinema of Swords traces the roots and branches of this unruly genre, highlighting classics of the form and pointing fans toward thrilling new gems they never knew existed. With wry summaries and criticism from swordplay expert Lawrence Ellsworth, this comprehensive guidebook is perfect as a reference work or as a dazzling Hollywood history to be read end-to-end.
Download or read book Robert Shaw written by John French and published by Dean Street Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Shaw is most celebrated today as the Oscar-nominated star in movies like From Russia with Love, A Man For All Seasons, The Sting and - most memorably of all - as Quint in the record-breaking Jaws. His breakthrough came when Hollywood was experiencing something of a British Invasion. Sean Connery, Peter O'Toole, Vanessa Redgrave and Richard Burton were among the new stars. But Shaw was arguably more talented than any, a figure of extraordinary and wide-ranging promise. More than just a mesmerising actor on stage and screen, he was also a gifted writer. He wrote no less than six published novels (winning the Hawthornden Prize), while his plays include the acclaimed Man in The Glass Booth. The flipside to Shaw's diverse abilities was his well-earned reputation as a hellraiser. A fiercely competitive man in all areas of his life, whether playing table tennis or drinking whisky, he emptied mini-bars, crashed Aston Martins, fathered nine children by three different women, made (and spent) a fortune, and set fire to Orson Welles' house. He died at 51, having driven himself too hard, too fast, but unable to get over his father's suicide when Shaw was just 11. John French, Shaw's biographer, knew him well, professionally and personally. Robert Shaw: The Price of Success is a perceptive, sympathetic, but unsparing portrait of the blessings and curses endowing this mercurial, enigmatic and deeply engaging man. This edition features a new foreword written by Richard Dreyfuss. Praise 'Both impressive and immaculate, a tremendously skilled biography... chillingly well told.' Sheridan Morley 'I liked Robert Shaw: The Price of Success tremendously, and applaud its digital rebirth.' Robert Sellers, author of Hellraisers and Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down
Download or read book The Scarlet Queen written by Eric Leif Davin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Bonney had sworn eternal vengeance against the British Empire, which had sent a fleet to destroy her. But would the vampire in her own crew be more dangerous?
Download or read book Book of Pirates written by Howard Pyle and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; Fiction, Fact & fancy, Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main presents a romanticized account of pirates and piracy, mainly of Caribbean variety, enlivening the old stories and legends of some notorious characters. Pyle provides thorough and informative history of the pirates with historical accounts of well-known pirates such as Captain Henry Morgan, Captain Edward Teach, aka the infamous Black Beard, and the Isla de Tortuga. Also, the book contains several adventure stories and fictionalized accounts of brave men who crossed paths with pirates and lived to tell about it.
Download or read book Wilde Stories 2008 written by Steve Berman and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As such literary movements as interstitial and slipstream gain momentum, more and more authors interweave their traditional stories with gay themes as coming out, homophobia, and self-as-other, with a bit of the strange and weird. Named after one of the founding fathers of gay speculative fiction, Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of such stories from the prior year. Editor Steve Berman, a finalist for both the Lambda Literary and Andre Norton Awards, has collected an engaging selection of the fantastical, the strange, and the scary from such notable authors as Victor J. Banis, Hal Duncan and Lee Thomas.
Download or read book Howard Pyle s Book of Pirates written by Howard Pyle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main" by Howard Pyle is a fascinating and entertaining adventure book that was written to teach readers about the history of pirates. Complete with detailed illustrations, the book was and continues to be a fascinating and fun romp for readers of all ages who have found themselves intrigued by life at sea.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Film Themes Settings and Series written by Richard B. Armstrong and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first editon was called "the most valuable film reference in several years" by Library Journal. The new edition published in hardcover in 2001 includes more than 670 entries. The current work is a paperback reprint of that edition. Each entry contains a mini-essay that defines the topic, followed by a chronological list of representative films. From the Abominable Snowman to Zorro, this encyclopedia provides film scholars and fans with an easy-to-use reference for researching film themes or tracking down obscure movies on subjects such as suspended animation, viral epidemics, robots, submarines, reincarnation, ventriloquists and the Olympics ("Excellent" said Cult Movies). The volume also contains an extensive list of film characters and series, including B-movie detectives, Western heroes, made-for-television film series, and foreign film heroes and villains.
Download or read book The History of Pirates Piracy The Complete Nine Book Edition written by Howard Pyle and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Captain Charles Johnson) Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy (Howard Pyle) The Book of Buried Treasure: Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates (Ralph D. Paine) The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers (Charles Ellms) Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean (Currey E. Hamilton) The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate) (John Esquemeling) The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (J. D. Jerrold Kelley and Stanley Lane-Poole) The Pirate Gow (Daniel Defoe) The King of Pirates (Daniel Defoe)
Download or read book Scruffians written by Hal Duncan and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you prepared to enter acclaimed author Hal Duncan's world of scruffians and scamps and sodomites? Beware, for it is filled with the gay pirate gods of Love and Death, immortal scoundrels, and young men who find themselves forced to become villains. But who amongst us does not adore a gamin antihero? These fantastical tales from the fringes of an imaginative realm of supernatural fairies and human fey will captivate the reader. Light a smoke, raise a cup of whiskey, and seek a careful spot to cruise the Scruffians!
Download or read book Twelve Romances of the Sea and Tales of the Buccaneers and Pirates written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swordsmen of the Screen written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors, designers and fencing masters, as well as of the stars themselves, and devotes several chapters to the principal subjects if the swashbucklers – pirates, highwaymen, cavaliers and knights. The result is to recall, however fleetingly, the golden days of the silver screen. Reviews of the original edition: ‘An intelligent, scholarly, well-written account of adventure films, this work is sensitive both to cinema history and to the literary origins of the "swashbuckler"....Essential for any library with books on film, it may very well be the definitive book on its subject.’ – Library Journal
Download or read book The Chronicles of Pirates The Truth Behind the Legends Complete History of Piracy Biographies of the Most Famous Buccaneers 9 Books in One Volume written by Howard Pyle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronicles of Pirates The Truth Behind the Legends stands as a monumental anthology that brings together the quintessential works of nine distinguished authors, presenting a comprehensive and multifaceted exploration of piracy through history. This collection spans a wide range of literary styles, from biographical accounts to detailed historical analyses, encapsulating the diverse and often misunderstood world of pirates and buccaneers. Featuring the collective efforts of historians and storytellers such as Howard Pyle and Charles Ellms, the anthology sheds light on the romanticized veneer of piracy by delving into the stark realities and intricate lives of these sea marauders, offering readers standout pieces that contextualize the golden age of piracy within the broader scope of maritime history. The backgrounds of the contributing authors, a mix of renowned historians, novelists, and maritime experts, such as Daniel Defoe and Stanley Lane-Poole, provide a rich tapestry of perspectives that enhance the anthologys exploration of piracy. These authors collectively align with various historical, cultural, and literary movements, leveraging their unique insights to dissect the myth from the reality. Their varied voices offer an unparalleled depth of knowledge, illuminating the complex socio-economic factors and personal stories that have contributed to the enduring legacy of pirates. The Chronicles of Pirates offers readers an invaluable opportunity to engage with a comprehensive collection that serves both as a scholarly resource and a captivating read. It invites a broad audience, from academic scholars to enthusiasts of maritime history, to explore the rich tapestry of piracy from multiple angles. The anthologys breadth of insights, coupled with the engaging narratives, fosters a deeper understanding of the subject matter and encourages a dialogue between the authors works, making it a must-read for anyone looking to immerse themselves in the authentic and intricate history of piracy.
