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"The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress...
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For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier.
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"The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the early 1800s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng Yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she got an equal share of his business. When her husband died six years later, she took command of the fleet. Over the next decade, the pirate queen built a fleet of over 1,800 ships and 70,000 men. On land...
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c2006
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Contains true accounts of ten women pirates who chose lives of adventures on the high seas, from Alfhild, the daughter of a fifth-century Scandinavian king, to Lai Choi San, who lived and worked in the Macao and Hong Kong areas of southeast China in the 1920s
9) Pirates
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2015.
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Presents a history of piracy throughout the world, and discusses characteristics of buccaneers, privateers, and corsairs, including descriptions of weapons and daily life.
11) The dark frigate
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In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
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2023.
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"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury - bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood - is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
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[2011]
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When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure: Pirates past noon, they had lots of questions. What was life like on a pirate ship? Did pirates really make people walk the plank? Argh! How do you talk like a pirate? Is there any buried treasure around today?
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La isla del tesoro, un clásico de la literatura escocesa, y representada ya en diferentes formas, cuenta la historia de unos marineros que zarpan en búsqueda de un tesoro escondido. Desde el misterioso personaje que entrega el mapa, hasta los piratas que se amotinan en contra del capitán, y, sobre todo, los heroicos y temerarios actos del joven Jim Hawkins que los ayudan a sobrevivir en la isla; la historia está llena de aventuras. Es normal que...
20) Stowaway!
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A golden retriever puppy named Wally looks for adventure and finds it on a pirate ship run by puppy pirates.
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