Author : Russell Punter
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1474900313
When dastardly pirates capture Percy Pike, he has to use all his cunning to escape. Can Percy escape before he’s forced to walk the plank? This humorously illustrated tale features audio narration, and is specially written for children just beginning to read alone. "Irresistible for children learning to read. " - Child Education Plus
Author : Percy Westerman
Publisher : Litres
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5040584431
Author : Colin McNaughton
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781844281381
A diary of young pirate pupil Pickles who was sent by her father to Captain Abdul's pirate school to toughen her up.
Author : Grace Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351911058
The first volume devoted to literary pirates in the nineteenth century, this collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period. Gone were the dangerous ruffians of the eighteenth-century novel and in their place emerged a set of brooding and lovable rogues, as exemplified by Byron's Corsair. As the contributors engage with acts of piracy by men and women in the literary marketplace as well as on the high seas, they show that both forms were foundational in the promotion and execution of Britain's imperial ambitions. Linking the pirate's development as a literary figure with the history of piracy and the making of the modern state tells us much about race, class, and evolving gender relationships. While individual chapters examine key texts like Treasure Island, Dickens's 1857 'mutiny' story in Household Words, and Peter Pan, the collection as a whole interrogates the growth of pirate myths and folklore throughout the nineteenth century and the depiction of their nautical heirs in contemporary literature and culture.
Author : Alex Wheatle
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1617759945
In 1668, a young Jamaican girl, Kemosha, secures her freedom from enslavement and finds her true self while sailing to Panama with the legendary Captain Morgan. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection "Inspired by accounts of women pirates, this fantastical tale represents the era’s cruelty without romanticizing it. Kemosha’s love and persistence combine with forceful action, the terror of harsh racism and passionate, colourful language." —The Toronto Star In 1668, fifteen-year-old Kemosha is sold by a slave owner to a tavern keeper in Port Royal, Jamaica—the “wickedest city on earth.” She soon flees from a brutal assault and finds herself in the company of a mysterious free Black man, Ravenhide, who teaches her the fine art of swordplay, introduces her to her soul mate, Isabella, and helps her win her freedom. Ravenhide is a privateer for the notorious Captain Morgan aboard his infamous ship, the Satisfaction. At Ravenhide’s encouragement, Morgan invites Kemosha to join them on a pillaging voyage to Panama. As her swashbuckling legend grows, she realizes she has the chance to earn enough to buy the freedom of her loved ones—if she can escape with her life . . .
Author : Howard Pyle
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Buccaneers
ISBN :
Stories and descriptions of famous pirates and buccaneers.
Author : David Cordingly
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0812980174
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went from laying siege to laying down the law. During Britain’s war with Spain, Rogers sailed for the crown in sorties against Spanish targets in the Pacific; battled scurvy, hurricanes, and mutinies; captured a treasure galleon; and even rescued the castaway who inspired Robinson Crusoe. Appointed governor of the Bahamas in 1717, the fearless Rogers defended the island colony of King George I against plundering pirates and an attempted Spanish invasion. His resolute example led to the downfall of such notorious pirates as Blackbeard, Calico Jack, and the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. A vividly detailed and action-packed portrait of one of the early eighteenth century’s most colorful characters, Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean serves up history that’s as fascinating and gripping as any seafaring legend.
Author : Mary, Johnston
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1773130412
To Have and to Hold (1899) is a novel by American author Mary Johnston. It was the bestselling novel in the United States in the following year (1900). To Have and to Hold is the story of an English soldier, Ralph Percy, turned Virginian explorer iIPn colonial Jamestown. Ralph buys a wife for himself - a girl named Jocelyn Leigh - little knowing that she is the escaping ward of King James I, fleeing a forced marriage to Lord Carnal. Jocelyn hardly loves Ralph - indeed, she seems to abhor him. Carnal, Jocelyn's husband-to-be, eventually comes to Jamestown, unaware that Ralph Percy and Jocelyn Leigh are man and wife. Lord Carnal attempts to kidnap Jocelyn several times and eventually follows Ralph, Jocelyn, and their two companions - Jeremy Sparrow, the Separatist minister, and Diccon, Ralph's servant - as they escape from the King's orders to arrest Ralph and carry Jocelyn back to England. The boat they are in, however, crashes on a desert island, but they are accosted by pirates, who, after a short struggle, agree to take Ralph as their captain, after he pretends to be the pirate "Kirby". The pirates gleefully play on with Ralph's masquerade, until he refuses to allow them to rape and pillage those aboard Spanish ships. The play is up when the pirates see an English ship off the coast of Florida. Ralph refuses to fire upon it, knowing it carries the new Virginian governor, Sir Francis Wyatt, but the pirates open fire, and Jeremy Sparrow, before the English ship can be destroyed, purposefully crashes the ship into a reef. The pirates are all killed, but the Englishmen (and woman) are rescued by the Governor's ship.
Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2007-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.
Author : Alan Alexander Milne
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Children's plays
ISBN :
Owing to the difficulties of actually writing it down, a group of children imagine their play in which there are scenes from a fairy tale - The Princess and the Woodcutter - a pirate story and a Christmas episode which includes many pantomime and nursery rhyme characters.
