Pirates have been around as long as people have used the oceans as trade routes, & their reign on the world's high seas has inspired many a novelist. But the type of pirate Ross Kemp is investigating now is a world away from the cutlass-&-peg-leg stereotype of Treasure Island & Pirates of the Caribbean. The corsairs he meets in Somalia, Indonesia & Nigeria are armed with AK47 assault rifles, RPG-7 rocket launchers & semi-automatic pistols. They race towards their targets in speed-boats & board & capture vessels in a flash. They are violent, dangerous & ruthless
- they will stop at nothing to get the ransoms they have demanded. Piracy is becoming an increasingly serious problem that is not going away. As the pirates he meets stretch their operations ever further to new hunting grounds, Kemp finds out, often to his cost, how much of a force to be reckoned with they are.
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This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of remarkable men & women, such as Calico Jack Rackham, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny & Bartholomew Roberts, who chose a life of derring-do on the open seas over poverty & injustice in the place they were born. Covering every aspect of life under the Jolly Roger, & based on first-hand accounts by pirates & their victims, discover the secrets of how these outlaws & fighting men lived & died
- all too often ignominiously at the end of a rope. Broken down into themed sections, topics include pirate attacks, the cramped living conditions aboard their ships, the weapons they used & the code they lived by, plus a section on ruthless modern-day pirates who threaten seafarers today.
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Offers a history of piracy, from ancient times through the Renaissance 'privateers' such as Drake, with their Letters of Marque (an early example of State-sponsored terrorism), to the real & flourishing threat of contemporary pirates that patrol the less well-regulated shipping lanes of the world. ...

Freddies sleeping outside in his amazing pirate tent.

" No fairies allowed!" he yells when his pesky little sister,

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Books Picture Books Have you ever wondered whether pirates wear pyjamas when it’s time to say goodnight?  Well leap aboard the Leaky Parrot to find out! Captain Grotbeard & his crew love nothing better than bubble baths, jim-jams & pillow fights!  So if you want to be a pirate you don’t need a patch or sword
- just grab your best pyjamas & a bed to climb aboard.  Product Information: ISBN: 9781848691360 Author: Caroline Crowe Publisher: Little Tiger Format: Paperback Pages: 32 Dimensions: 28 x 24.5 x 0.5cm
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Captain Duddle is the undisputed king of pirate picture books & the Jolley Rogers are unleashing merry mayhem on the poor, unsuspecting residents of sleepy seaside town Dull-on-Sea.

With belly laughs throughout & lots of funny details to spot on each page, its an absolute tricorn (thats a pirate hat, dont you know?) triumph.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781783705726
• Author: Jonny Duddle
• Publisher: Templar Books
• Format: Hardback
• Dimensions: 16.5 x 19.5 x 2cm








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Drawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates & their victims, as well as Islamic accounts, this title provides perspectives of the corsairs & an insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a life so violent, so uncertain & so alien that it sets you apart from the rest of mankind. ...

Five years ago, humble linguist & scribe Kineas P Montague was caught between Pirates & Ninjas competing for their ancestors' treasures. He escaped not only with his life, but with all the treasures they sought! Now a mysterious inscription directs him to an even greater treasure. ...