Pirates : dead men's tales / written by Anne Rooney ; illustrated by Joe Wilson.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781783122325
- 1783122323
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 910.45 R777 | Available | 33111008916013 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 910.45 R777 | Available | 33111009260056 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Come face to face with some of the most villainous and scurrilous rogues ever to sail the seven seas! Travel from North Africa to the China Seas to meet such notorious figures as Blackbeard, the Barbarossa brothers, and women pirates Mary Read, Anne Bonny, and Zheng Shi. With plenty of maps, themed spreads, and true tales of a pirate's daily life, this book takes you on an epic adventure.
"Incredible facts, maps and true stories about life on the high seas"--cover.
Includes index.
Illustrations on endpapers.
'Pirates' explores pirates throughout history and across the globe. Come face-to-face with some of the most villainous and scurrilous rogues ever to sail the seven seas including the notorious Blackbeard, who terrorized the Caribbean and the Atlantic seaboard of America and Captain Kidd, who might be the unluckiest pirate of all time. In-depth pirate profiles are interspersed with highly visual maps and reveal all the incredible details of life as a pirate on the high seas.