| Description |
63 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Kingfisher knowledge |
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Kingfisher knowledge.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- First pirates: Ancient times -- Northern menace -- Slave pirates -- Plundering privateers -- Spanish main -- Summary -- Golden age: Buccaneers -- Blackbeard's time -- Pirate attack -- Life on board -- Pirates on land -- Female pirates -- Pirate punishments -- Chinese pirate fleets -- Political pirates -- Secretive smugglers -- Smuggling facts and fiction -- Summary -- Modern piracy and smuggling: Rumrunners -- Modern-day smuggling -- Wildlife smugglers -- Smuggling people -- Pirates today -- Catching the criminals -- Shipwreck hunters -- Summary -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |
| Summary |
Explores the colorful history of piracy and smuggling, including the Golden Age of buccaneers, Prohibition-era rumrunners, and endangered wildlife kidnapping. Pirates and Smugglers is a swashbuckling introduction to the highwaymen and women of the seas-from the cruel Cilician pirates who terrorized the Mediterranean more than 2,000 years ago to the well-organized and ruthless modern-day buccaneers who target supertankers on the South China Sea-and the loot they plunder and smuggle. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.2 2.0 103886. |
| Subject |
Pirates -- Juvenile literature.
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Smuggling -- Juvenile literature.
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Privateering -- Juvenile literature.
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Smugglers -- Juvenile literature.
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Pirates.
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Smuggling.
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Privateering.
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Smugglers.
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| Added Title |
Pirates and smugglers |
| ISBN |
9780753458648 |
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0753458640 |
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