It's like hearing weathered old-time deck-hands telling yarns, sharing their special secrets. To make a ship inside a bottle, to learn the ropes, how to best send a message in a bottle. Where will the currents take it... Yokohama? Zanzibar? So many stories. Uniquely conceived & packaged. Both gift & craft, educational & whimsical. Rare fun in attractive & intriguing boxes. Easy to learn & enjoy. For inquisitive minds... & keeps them busy for hours at a time. ...

Pirates have a well-earned bad reputation, & this book invites the reader to join their ranks. Here you will discover everything the aspiring pirate needs to know in order to join a crew & start – & possibly end – a life of adventure, plunder & glory. The hopeful initiate is educated on all manner of piratical concerns: the history of this dishonourable tradition stretching back to ancient Greece & Rome; essentials of language & dress; notably dastardly pirate role models from around the world, including Blackbeard & Captain Kidd, but also some less well known, such as Eustace the Monk & Anne Bonny & Mary Read; what to expect of life at sea; the best weapons to have; how to capture a prize on the high seas, & much more. Author Stephen Turnbull has studied the archives & travelled to pirate locations around the world in researching this fictionalized account, written as a pirate’s training manual for a young recruit, but solidly grounded in fact, based on the year 1793, a golden age for piracy. His lively & engaging manual provides answers to all the questions you may have wondered about – did they really walk the plank (probably not); keep parrots; bury treasure & mark it with an X on the map? & you may be surprised to learn what their usual style of hat actually was. Illustrated throughout with contemporary artifacts, documents & prints, as well as modern reconstructions, this light-hearted but informative guide will captivate readers young & old, & covers with authority every aspect of what it was really like to be a pirate. Table of Contents Introduction: So you want to be a Pirate? • 1. Pirates & You • 2. Role Models • 3. Life on Board • 4. The Practical Pirate • 5. The Pirate in Action • 6. Land Ho! The Pirate Raid • 7. The Successful Pirate Captain • 8. The Pirate in His Old Age • 9. The Last Word • 10. A Note from the Editor ...

Pirateology is the latest in the successful series by Templar & is told with renowned enthusiasm & style by celebrated children’s author Dugald Steer & illustrated with panache by Anne Yvonne Gibert. Join Captain William Lubber, Pirate Hunter General to the Admiralty in his fictional 1720 work to search the high seas for the wicked pirate Arabella Drummond, her cut-throat crew of sea dogs & her ship`s cat, the redoubtable Mr. Teach! The story of adventure on the high seas is told in the form of journal entries, complemented with drawings, maps & mini-booklets embedded in the pages. This unforgettable journal of his search across the most dangerous waters of the world is packed with maps, charts, wonderful illustrations of pirate ships & sloops. It details some of the world’s most famous pirates including Blackbeard & Edward Teach & shows the areas they terrorised in search of gold & jewels. The book contains features such as a real compass set into the cover, a hidden treasure map, a working sun-dial, a page of foiled, embossed doubloons & ‘pieces of eight’ & much more. ...

Aha me hearties! Ever wondered what goes on aboard a pirate ship? Then read this 24 page booklet on how we capture our villainous foes, who the rogues are that make up our crew, how we entertain ourselves, & how we get punished when we do wrong. And once you know our secrets, build your own model ship
- made from sturdy cardboard
- & become your own savvy pirate on the lookout for treasure & scurvy dogs! Aar!

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Here comes a great addition to this exciting sticker book series for boys. This title is packed with historically accurate pirate costumes & juicy details on how pirates really lived, from Viking pirates in the first century to the Chinese pirates of the 1800s. It is presented with over 150 stickers to choose from, including costumes for fearsome pirates & their foes, plus pirate parrots & pirate flags. ...

Hot on the heels of the widely popular Sounds of the Wild series comes Sounds of the Past
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Children will love dressing the historical figures in this collection of two popular titles from the Sticker Dressing series. Discover juicy details on how pirates really lived, from Viking pirates in the first century to the Chinese pirates of the 1800s & travel back in time & find out what people wore long ago, from Tutankhamun`s elaborate body ornaments to Louis XIV`s velvet robes. ...

There`s an anchor in the butter! There`s a spyglass by the juice! There are parrots on the carrots! There are PIRATES on the loose! For one little boy, a trip to the supermarket is turned upside down. A swashbuckling pirate crew wreak havoc in the aisles, but the grown-ups can`t see them. Can he convince the pirates to behave? A hilarious new picture book from the bestselling author & illustrator team behind DINOSAURS IN THE SUPERMARKET. ...

Explore the lives of 10 real pirates & learn about life on the high seas with this book that comes with your very own magnifying glass. Spot more than 200 pirate-themed items in each eye-boggling illustration, & learn about navigation, sea-faring & life above (and below) deck in this book packed with authentic detail & intricate cutaway scenes. ...

Meet the Jolley-Rogers
- a pirate family who're moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town. Stopping to fix up their ship, this
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