The fascinating and complete photograph "The Pirates' Who's Who" changed into made through the British naturalist and marine biologist Philip Gosse. Even though he had the equal name as his father, who changed into also an exquisite naturalist, this Philip Gosse turned into extra interested by marine records and piracy. The book is going into detail approximately the lives and adventures of famous pirates from history, giving short ancient sketches of those sea criminals. Gosse paints a shiny photograph of the people who terrorized the excessive seas at some stage in the Golden Age of Piracy, from famous pirates like Blackbeard to less famous however simply as thrilling characters. Gosse makes use of ancient information, first-hand bills of cash due, and legends to craft an exciting tale that looks into the pirates' motivations, moves, and deaths. The book isn't handiest a useful account of the past, however it also indicates how creative people have been all through that point by telling stories of bold raids, interesting adventures, and characters that have been bigger than existence. "The Pirates' Who's Who" is proof of Philip Gosse's thorough studies and ability as a storyteller. It offers readers an exciting and educational investigate the lives of the men and women who sailed underneath the black flag and left a long-lasting mark on maritime history.

It maketh me turnest over in my grave. William Shakespeare Whos To Blame not only takes us on a romp through Shakespeares plays, but down hilarious back alleys and side doors we havent visited before. Williamss intuitive comic timing tells us that he understands all the literary clichsand how to turn them cheerfully upside down. Caroline Ferdinandsen, Author of The Forecast SherChristispeare is the finest sleuth in sixteenth-century England, but when hes ordered to investigate the suspicious deaths of Prince Hamlet and his family in Denmark and then the Montagues and Capulets of Fair Verona, he uncovers an intriguing mystery of literary revisionist proportions. The wily and witty detective and his bungling sidekick Pancho embark on two rollicking adventures where there is no shortage of wine, women, and words. Using old school cunning and state-of-the-art forensics, the pair stops at nothing to solve two of literatures most famous tragedies and bring the guilty parties to justice. Author Jeffery Williams creates a wacky and winsome spoof/sequel/pastiche/whodunit that leaves no Shakespearean line or scene unparodied. Take a fresh angle on two of Shakespeares greatest works, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, and enter the world of SherChristispeare and Pancho as they find out Whos to Blame.

A view of pirate life—from the crow’s nest. Pirate lore has captured our fancy for centuries. Here is the first series book that gives readers a comprehensive yet entertaining history of those swashbuckling brigands. It offers portraits of such infamous men and women as Blackbeard, Captain Anne Bonny, Captain Kidd, and Jean LaFitte, with a full history of pirates through the ages, even modern day, high-tech scavengers of the South Seas. For mateys young and old.

Nevis Island, Caribbean, 1680 Red-legs Greaves has been a slave, a pirate, and a rich sugar planter. Now he's a prisoner. And next morning, he'll be dead - hanged by the neck for piracy! His only friend is a slave girl called Lou. Can Lou do anything to save Red-legs? It would take a miracle... A fantastic story blending pirate legend with historical fact and Terry Deary's vividly imagined characters!

True tale of the buccaneer remembered in history as The Gentleman Pirate Experience the daily lives of pirates, follow bold and perilous raids, and survive a terrifying storm at sea in this adventurous tale of a white slave who flees the sugar plantation to become a captain of a pirate vessel. Based on the life of an actual 17th century pirate and ancestor of the author's husband, this biographical novel is set on several Caribbean islands and aboard ship. Born into white slavery and orphaned, Greaves flees the cane fields and his abusive master for life on the open sea, but by mistake, ends up a stowaway on a pirate ship. Later, elected captain, young Greaves insists every man in his crew honor the Pirate Code. Greaves scuttled ships and sacked towns along the Spanish Main with ruthless freebooters. Later, retiring on his riches to manage a sugar plantation, Greaves is identified by a former enemy and imprisoned. While awaiting a trial he knows will surely lead to the gallows, Greaves becomes the sole survivor of a tsunami and is rescued by a whaling ship. The reformed pirate finally returns to Barbados in hopes of finding Clarissa-the woman he loves. But will she still love him after learning he's a wanted man who pillaged with pirates?

Pirates! The word is enough to send a shiver through your timbers. A nation such as the Scots, with its seafaring tradition, inevitably has a history of lawlessness at sea. From the earliest times, shrewd sailors realised that, by branching out as government agents, privateers or freelance plunderers, they could make more than just a living. Nautical Scots played a part in the Golden Age of Piracy, in the seventeenth century, most notably in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. But the story of Scottish piracy probably stretches back to Roman times and reaches up to the present day. In this exploration of a little-known aspect of Scottish seafaring, Jim Hewitson hauls up the anchor, hoists the Jolly Roger and takes us into some unexpected waters to meet characters such as: Kirkcudbright-born John Paul Jones, founder of the US navy, hero to the Americans, rogue pirate to the British; Sweyn Asleifsson, an Orkney-based pirate who spent half the year as a peaceful farmer and the other as a wild sea raider; and Greenock?s Captain Kidd, the notorious piratical stereotype, who turns out to be more of a naive fall guy than a swashbuckling adventurer.

From anti-slavery heroes and privateers to evil murderers, from Viking longships to Somali raiders today, the 1000-year roll call of the pirates.