Pirates on the Prowl


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An educational and entertaining board game for 2-8 players. Find treasures or steal them from others. Print and play. This quick-paced, easy-to-learn board game is free and fun. The goal of the game is to collect 1.200 doubloons in treasures. You can earn treasures by selling stolen cargo, you can find treasures on deserted islands, and you can steal treasures from other pirates. You'll need pirate qualities for that: cheating and tricks, bravery and taking risks, forming and breaking alliances, and you'll need a bit of luck as well. The game consists of a play board (A2-size), 60 Cargo Cards, 12 Bad Luck Cards, 20 Bronze Canon Cards, 40 Treasure Tickets, 8 Character Cards and a Player's & Construction Manual. Additionally, you'll need 5 dice, 8 pawns, some creativity to build your 8 pirate ships, and a box to keep everything together.




The Brementown Musicians


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Pirates Aboard!


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is an unflinching look at the brutal activities of twenty-first century pirates and exposes the very real danger faced by sailors around the world today.




On the Prowl


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On the Prowl has developed a regular daily following on Facebook of more than 100,000 cat lovers from around the world. In On the Prowl the best of Rupert Fawcett's brilliantly observed, touchingly true cartoons come together in book form for the first time. Featuring the secret thoughts and conversations of cats of every size, shape and breed, this gorgeous book is a celebration of our favourite feline friends.




Pirates


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Explores the world of pirates, covering myths, weapons, treasure, battles, famous pirates, pirates in popular culture, and the dangers presented by modern piracy.







Piracy on the High Seas


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An entertaining and informative look at piracy throughout the centuries, this edition examines the real-life experiences of pirates and pirate hunters. Tales focus on piracy committed in the Caribbean, the Barbary Coast, and Asia, with a chapter devoted to modern piracy in areas like Somalia and the Strait of Malacca. Author Diane Yancey examines how the lives of pirates and their often brutal behavior contrast with romantic portrayals of maritime outlaws. Female pirates are also described, as well as the variety of superstitions that pirates had about women and how this affected their position within the pirate community.




The Pirate Encyclopedia


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The Pirate Encyclopedia, as the essential companion for scholars, students, and a general audience intrigued by tales and facts, offers the most complete body of data available on the legitimacy of more than 7.000 adventurers as subjects of investigation.




Pirates Magnified


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Ahoy shipmate! Grab your magnifying glass and seek out history's most notorious pirates in this swashbuckling search-and-find adventure, packed with over 200 things to spot! Explore the lives of 10 real pirates and learn about life on the high seas, whilst using the free magnifying glass to spot more than 200 pirate-themed items in each eye-boggling illustration. Kids will have fun using the magnifying glass to search whilst learning about real life pirates in this seafaring adventure!




Pirattitude!: So you Wanna Be a Pirate?


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Set sail for high-seas hijinks and nautical nonsense with those paragons of Pirattitude who invented the famous International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Whether readers are old hands at pirating or hopeless landlubbers, the Pirate Guys will have them pirate-savvy in no time with sure-fire pirate pickup lines for any occasion, tips on how to make their pirate party a buccaneer ball that even Martha Stewart would be proud of, and help determining their true pirate monicker.