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<p>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. <i>Pirates!</i> 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.</p>

Author

Rogoziński, Jan

Publisher

Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306807220

Subjects

Travel, History, Anthropology