Book Count: 81
Holiday(s): Halloween
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Pirates By: Gail Selinger and W. Thomas Smith Jr.
Non-Fiction: history 345 pages 2006
This book is about pirates. It covers from the first ones to modern ones (sea faring only), but it mostly deals with the golden age of piracy and the time following it. It does have small sections on Chinese and Barbary Coast pirates and I learned that at one time the Knights of Malta where in effect pirates. (Although, today it’s all charity work and funny ceremonially outfits) Anyway it does include info on all the best known pirates; Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Captain Kidd, the Barbarossas, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Lai Sho Sz’en a.k.a. the Dragon Lady, and the actually dreaded pirate Roberts to name a few. It also has tons of information on what life was really like for pirates and the how and whys of becoming one.
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