Download or read book A Brief History of Pirates and Buccaneers written by Tom Bowling and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Stevenson's Treasure Island to Pirates of the Caribbean, the romantic image of pirates in popular culture has long been with us. But pirates are not all as charming as Johnny Depp. In ancient times Thracians, Cilicians and Illyrians terrorised traders in the Mediterranean, while the Barbary pirates of North Africa instilled fear wherever they went from the Holy Lands to the coast of Ireland. It was not until the age of Discovery, when ships began to cross the Atlantic carrying unimaginable riches from the New World that the traditional image of the buccaneering pirate was created. In England, heroes such as Sir Francis Drake were feted for their exploits against the Spanish fleet in which piracy was little more than state-sponsored terrorism. Tom Bowling's lively history explores many of the myths and true stories about the notorious outlaws of the oceans: including Captain Kidd, Blackbeard as well as Mary Read and other famous female pirates.
Download or read book A Brief History of Pirates and Buccaneers written by Tom Bowling and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Stevenson's Treasure Island to Pirates of the Caribbean, the romantic image of pirates in popular culture has long been with us. But pirates are not all as charming as Johnny Depp. In ancient times Thracians, Cilicians and Illyrians terrorised traders in the Mediterranean, while the Barbary pirates of North Africa instilled fear wherever they went from the Holy Lands to the coast of Ireland. It was not until the age of Discovery, when ships began to cross the Atlantic carrying unimaginable riches from the New World that the traditional image of the buccaneering pirate was created. In England, heroes such as Sir Francis Drake were feted for their exploits against the Spanish fleet in which piracy was little more than state-sponsored terrorism. Tom Bowling's lively history explores many of the myths and true stories about the notorious outlaws of the oceans: including Captain Kidd, Blackbeard as well as Mary Read and other famous female pirates.
Download or read book Pirates and Buccaneers Coloring Book written by Peter F. Copeland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan, Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, others in 44 accurate plates. Shown in color on covers. Captions.
Download or read book Pirates written by Hannah Westlake and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 17th and 18th centuries, sailing from Europe or Africa to the Americas, or trading from India to Central America, was a risky undertaking. Ferocious storms and barely-understood diseases weren't the only threats; ruthless pirates lurked on the horizon, craving wealth and reputation. This book covers everything you want to know about the legendary Golden Age of Piracy. Uncover the true stories of the bloodthirsty buccaneers who made their fortune plundering the high seas, from Captain Kidd and Edward "Blackbeard" Teach to female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Find out what life was really like aboard a pirate ship, from the roles of the crew to divvying out the spoils. Investigate the founding and exploits of the notorious Flying Gang, a band of fierce pirate captains, and the piratical haven they founded on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. Packed with incredible illustrations and insights into the period, this is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to learn about this famed Golden Age of history.
Download or read book The Buccaneers of America written by Alexander O. Exquemelin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating chronicle of the bands of plundering sea rovers who roamed the Caribbean and coastlines of Central America in the 17th century. Includes exploits of the infamous Henry Morgan and his burning of Panama City.
Download or read book Pirates of Our Coast written by Frank Stockton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very earliest days of history there have been pirates, and it is, therefore, not at all remarkable that, in the early days of the history of this continent, sea-robbers should have made themselves prominent; but the buccaneers of America differed in many ways from those pirates with whom the history of the old world has made us acquainted. It was very seldom that an armed vessel set out from an European port for the express purpose of sea-robbery in American waters. At first nearly all the noted buccaneers were traders. But the circumstances which surrounded them in the new world made of them pirates whose evil deeds have never been surpassed in any part of the globe. These unusual circumstances and amazing temptations do not furnish an excuse for the exceptionally wicked careers of the early American pirates; but we are bound to remember these causes or we could not understand the records of the settlement of the West Indies. The buccaneers were fierce and reckless fellows who pursued their daring occupation because it was profitable, because they had learned to like it, and because it enabled them to wreak a certain amount of vengeance upon the common enemy. But we must not assume that they inaugurated the piratical conquests and warfare which existed so long upon our eastern seacoasts. Before the buccaneers began their careers, there had been great masters of piracy who had opened their schools in the Caribbean Sea; and in order that the condition of affairs in this country during parts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries may be clearly understood, we will consider some of the very earliest noted pirates of the West Indies. When we begin a judicial inquiry into the condition of our fellow-beings, we should try to be as courteous as we can, but we must be just; consequently a man's fame and position must not turn us aside, when we are acting as historical investigators.
Download or read book Buccaneers of the Caribbean written by Jon Latimer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth century, sea raiders known as buccaneers controlled the Caribbean. Buccaneers were not pirates but privateers, licensed to attack the Spanish by the governments of England, France, and Holland. Jon Latimer charts the exploits of these men who followed few rules as they forged new empires. Lacking effective naval power, the English, French, and Dutch developed privateering as the means of protecting their young New World colonies. They developed a form of semi-legal private warfare, often carried out regardless of political developments on the other side of the Atlantic, but usually with tacit approval from London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs of such figures as William Dampier, Sieur Raveneau de Lussan, Alexander Oliver Exquemelin, and Basil Ringrose, Jon Latimer portrays a world of madcap adventurers, daredevil seafarers, and dangerous rogues. Piet Hein of the Dutch West India Company captured, off the coast of Cuba, the Spanish treasure fleet, laden with American silver, and funded the Dutch for eight months in their fight against Spain. The switch from tobacco to sugar transformed the Caribbean, and everyone scrambled for a quick profit in the slave trade. Oliver Cromwell’s ludicrous Western Design—a grand scheme to conquer Central America—fizzled spectacularly, while the surprising prosperity of Jamaica set England solidly on the road to empire. The infamous Henry Morgan conducted a dramatic raid through the tropical jungle of Panama that ended in the burning of Panama City. From the crash of gunfire to the billowing sail on the horizon, Latimer brilliantly evokes the dramatic age of the buccaneers.
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 History of the Buccaneers of America written by James Burney and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Buccaneers of America written by John Esquemeling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed description of buccaneer Henry Morgan's exploits in the West Indies, first published in 1684 and reissued in 1893.
Download or read book Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts written by Frank Richard Stockton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts" by Frank Richard Stockton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts written by Frank R. Stockton and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of famous and lesser know pirates who distinguished themselves through cutlass, blunderbuss, and brawn in the coastal waters of the New World.
Download or read book Pirates written by Jan Rogozinski and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1996-08-21 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than a thousand entries this encyclopedia—impeccably researched, internationally focused, and extensively cross-referenced—reveals the actual lives and exploits of pirates and the diverse worlds from which they sprang, from the Etruscan and Phoenician marauders off the coast of ancient Greece to the Chinese and Malay pirates of the 1870s. Pirates! encompasses: historical pirates like Madame Cheng I Sao, Captain William Kidd, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Edward "Blackbeard" Teach; fictional buccaneers like Anne Bonny, Captain Blood, and Long John Silver; every important and noteworthy novel, play, poem, ballad, opera, and movie portraying pirates; pirate slang, havens, types of ships, weapons, symbols, practices, and pleasures; a listing of the richest booty ever captured; over a hundred illustrations (with more than a dozen paintings by Howard Pyle); and a comprehensive bibliography.
Download or read book Howard Pyle s Book of Pirates written by Howard Pyle and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and descriptions of famous pirates and buccaneers.
Download or read book Pirates Who s Who written by Philip Gosse and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive maritime reference gives the particulars of hundreds of the brethren of the sea in biographical form. A must for any Pirate enthusiast or arm-chair swashbuckler! Special introduction by Editor David W. Whitehead (Piratologist/Cryptoarchaeologist/Cryptozoologist), Author of "CryptoQuest Field Guide to Florida Pirates and their Buried Treasure." Pirates' Who's Who is a true classic from the CryptoQuest Reprint Series.
Download or read book The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century written by Clarence Henry Haring and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarence Henry Haring's 'The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century' provides readers with a detailed and insightful look into the history of piracy in the Caribbean during the 17th century. Haring's writing style is both informative and engaging, painting a vivid picture of the brutal and adventurous world of buccaneers. Through meticulous research and a keen eye for detail, Haring explores the social, economic, and political factors that contributed to the rise of piracy in the West Indies during this time period. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in maritime history, colonialism, or the Age of Exploration. Clarence Henry Haring, a renowned historian and expert in Latin American history, drew on a wealth of primary sources and firsthand accounts to write this authoritative study. His scholarly background and dedication to research shine through in the book, making it a definitive work on the subject of buccaneers in the West Indies. Haring's passion for history and his expertise in the field are evident in every chapter, making this book a must-read for history enthusiasts and students alike. I highly recommend 'The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century' to readers who are fascinated by tales of adventure, piracy, and the untamed seas. Haring's thorough examination of the buccaneers' world offers a comprehensive and compelling look into a fascinating era in Caribbean history.
Download or read book The Pirates Who s Who written by Philip Gosse and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you craving for a thrilling journey on the high seas? Immerse yourself in 'The PIrates' Who's Who', a captivating account of the notorious scoundrels that sailed the seas, who left behind a legacy of scandal and infamy. This book will take you on an exciting journey into the lives and ultimate demise of history's most infamous pirates. Get ready for a wild ride!
