Pirates (Collins Gem)电子书

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Part One: Chronology

Piracy through the ages

The Sea Peoples

Pirates of Ancient Greece

Rome and the pirates

The Vikings

Byzantine pirates

Medieval pirates

Barbary corsairs

Huguenot pirates

The corsairs of Malta

The privateers

The Spanish Main pirates

The sea rovers

The buccaneers

Pirates of the Caribbean

Indian Ocean pirates

French corsairs

American privateers

South China Sea pirates

Indonesian pirates

Part Two: Infamous Pirates

Barbarossa Brothers

Sir John Hawkins

Sir Francis Drake

François L’Olonnais

Rock Braziliano

Bartolomeo El Portugues

Charlotte de Berry

Sir Christopher Myngs

Sir Henry Morgan

Michel de Grammont

Jean Bart

Bartholomew Sharp

William Dampier

René Duguay-Trouin

Thomas Tew

Henry Every

William Kidd

Edward Teach

Charles Vane

Stede Bonnet

Edward England

Howell Davis

Bartholomew Roberts

Anne Bonny & Mary Read

Edward Low

John Paul Jones

Robert Surcouf

Jean Lafitte

Cheng I Sao

Benito de Soto

Pedro Gibert

Shap’n’tzai

Part Three: The Ships

Pirate ships through the ages

Bireme

Viking longboat

Corsair galley

Galleon

Brigantines, sloops and snows

Pirate flagship

Chinese junk

Famous pirate ships

Parts of a pirate ship

Equipment

Weapons

Tactics

Navigational tools

Maps

Flags

Part Four: The Pirate Life

Lure of the Jolly Roger

The pirate crew

Women pirates

Pirate dress

Life at sea

The pirate code

Discipline

Life ashore

Pirate lairs

Treasure

Fabled treasure hoards

Pirate battles

Pirate captives

Pirate atrocities

Pirates and slavery

Pirates and smuggling

Myths and legends

Pirate talk

Pirate songs

Part Five: The End of the Pirates

The end of an era

Pirate hunters

Trials and executions

Part Six: The Legacy of the Pirates

Pirates in literature

Film pirates

Pirate wrecks

Modern piracy

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Glossary

Index

Copyright

About the Publisher