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BOOK: Pirates — Bad Boys At Sea!
In this innovative paperback by Dorling Kindersley Readers series, Christopher Maynard opens a treasure trove of tales from all around the globe of pirates, adventures at high sea and lost treasures. This Eye-Witness Series is for reading at an accelerated level and the title Pirates — Raiders of the High Seas in it provides blow-by-blow narrative biographies of eight pirates in the first person. It is like an outsider’s account of the inside and formidable world of pirates.
The paperback marks the history of pirates’ reign of terror on the seas from the ancient times onwards. It may come as a surprise to you that even the magnanimous Julius Caesar was once held hostage by pirates and this is only one of the eight tales! The tales narrate how pirates led lawless and grizzly lives and eventually met far grizzlier fates. Some pirates got away; others faced gruesome deaths, while there were a few lucky ones like Henry Morgan who went on to make a career out of piracy. A few good fortunes enjoyed by the pirates were hoards of looted wealth, and patronages of the noblemen and political figures.
You would also get to read about the infamous Captain Kidd and his lost treasure. Information relevant to the lives of pirates and useful facts are presented through the help of illustrations and high resolution pictures. The narrative style is crisp and the tone is racy, punchy and at times ironical. If Johnny Depp charmed you as a high sea bandit in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, then you would become equally fascinated with the real characters in this paperback as well.
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