Surprising facts about pirates /

Steele, Philip, 1948-,

Surprising facts about pirates / by Philip Steele ; illustrated by Marc Aspinall. - 31 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm - Wow! I didn't know that . - Wow! I didn't know that. .

The French pirate Antonio Fuet fired gold coins at his enemy when he ran out of cannonballs. What a showoff! The most powerful female pirate was Zheng Yi Sao. She commanded more than 80,000 pirates in the 1800s. Pirates hid in inlets and bays so that they could make surprise attacks!

0753471884 (hbk.) 0753471892 (pbk.) 9780753471883 (hbk.) 9780753471890 (pbk.)


Pirates--Miscellanea--Juvenile literature.

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