By Arie Kaplan
Pirates are outlaws who dedicate crimes at sea. all through background they've got attacked cargo-laden ships to pillage gold, silver, human slaves, and useful foodstuffs. Twenty-first-century pirates take crews hostage and insist ransoms. a few even siphon off petroleum from tanker ships.
The international of pirates is one among violence and fiscal desperation. but over the centuries, pirates have bought a name as rugged adventurers and heroes. Novelists, playwrights, cartoonists, and screenwriters have created a variety of stories displaying pirates as noble or even cute figures.
Swashbuckling Scoundrels introduces readers to real-life pirates—medieval Viking raiders, Caribbean buccaneers, black pirates, lady pirates, and modern day pirates—as good as recognized fictional characters corresponding to lengthy John Silver and Mary "Jacky" Faber of the Bloody Jack sequence of novels. See how old and fictional pirates examine and why we thrill to stories of bold outlaw pirates.
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Swashbuckling Scoundrels: Pirates in Fact and Fiction (Nonfiction - Young Adult) by Arie Kaplan
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