Piratepedia
Designed as a hip time-travel journal into the pirate past, this compendium of the sea scoundrel's world includes all the detail of classic DK reference as well as excerpts from favorite piratical fiction-making Piratepedia a swashbuckling volume kids won't want to walk the plank without!
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Designed as a hip time-travel journal into the pirate past, this compendium of the sea scoundrel's world includes all the detail of classic DK reference as well as excerpts from favorite piratical fiction-making Piratepedia a swashbuckling volume kids won't want to walk the plank without!Publishers WeeklyFor those who can't get enough of pirate lore, the paper-over-board Piratepedia by Alisha Niehaus and Alan Hecker brims with full-color photographs with reproductions of real pirate weapons as well as simulated blood drops. Tracing pirates from Viking days to 21st-century "modern marauders," the book then delves into pirates of the literary kind-such as the Pirates of Penzance and Captain Hook-and includes a Jolly Roger poster plus a path to a "secret online treasure." Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
Your Guide to Time Travel 18Ancient PiratesAncient Greece: Greek Gangster Hideaway 12Rome: Seat of Ancient Pirate Power 14Scandinavia: Home of the Vicious Vikings 18You're Kidnapped! 16Northern Pirates 20CorsairsMediterranean: Sea of Slavery 24Barbary Coast: North African Pirate Base 26You're Enslaved! 28Malta: Mediterranean Pirate Isle 30St. Malo: French Corsair Capital 32PrivateersSouth America: New World of Top-Notch Treasure 36Spanish Main: Golden Lands, Treacherous Waters 38Sir Francis Drake 40You're Stranded at Sea! 42New England: Land of the Free, Home of the Privateer 44Buccaneers and the Golden Age of PiracyHispaniola: At the Buccaneer Barbecue 48Bloody Buccaneers 50Maracaibo: Buccaneer Bonanza 52You're Attacked! 54Jamaica: On the Slave Trade Triangle 56Port Royal: Pirate Party Central 58Calico Jack and the Ladies 60You're Becalmed! 62Madagascar: Pirate Paradise 64Blackbeard 66Mas a Tierra: A Good Place to Get Stuck 68You're Starving! 70River Thames: End of the Line 72Captain Kidd 74Gardiner Island: Burial Ground 76Trinidad: Treasureless Island 78Asian PiratesSouth China Sea: Navy Smackdown Site 82The Pirates of China 84Japan: Land of the Raiding Sons 86Modern-Day PiratesStraight of Malacca: Dangerous Territory 90Shipwreck Stops: Big Payoffs-If You Can Find Them 92Talk Like a Pirate! 94Hollywood, California: Where Swashbucklers Meet the Silver Screen 96The Adventure in Review: Your Complete Pirate Timeline 98Classic Pirate LiteratureTreasure Island 102Pirates of Penzance 108Peter Pan 114Captain Sharkey 116Just a Few More! 122Resources/Index/Credits 124
\ From Barnes & NobleTalk Like a Pirate Day may come only once a year (September 19th), but for young buccaneers, the joys of the imaginary open seas are never ending. Piratepedia serves as an instant time-travel journal for pint-size high-sea rogues. DK has fitted out this ship with all the visual gear that swashbucklers need to know about these ocean-roaming free spirits.\ \ \ \ \ Publishers WeeklyFor those who can't get enough of pirate lore, the paper-over-board Piratepedia by Alisha Niehaus and Alan Hecker brims with full-color photographs with reproductions of real pirate weapons as well as simulated blood drops. Tracing pirates from Viking days to 21st-century "modern marauders," the book then delves into pirates of the literary kind-such as the Pirates of Penzance and Captain Hook-and includes a Jolly Roger poster plus a path to a "secret online treasure." Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.\ \
