The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates

A view of pirate life�from the crow�s nest...

Pirate lore has captured our fancy for centuries. Here is the first series book that gives readers a comprehensive yet entertaining history of those swashbuckling brigands. It offers portraits of such infamous men and women as Blackbeard, Captain Anne Bonny, Captain Kidd, and Jean LaFitte, with a full history of pirates through the ages, even modern day, high-tech scavengers of the South China seas. For mateys young and old.

• Author
• Gail Selinger, W. Thomas Smith Jr.

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 416

• Publisher
• Alpha

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781592573769

• Genres
• history, pirates, reference

• Release date
• 2006