What If You Met a Pirate?
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- Synopsis
- What If You Met a Pirate? YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT PIRATES. They were big guys with fancy hats, silk jackets, peg legs, and parrots cursing on their shoulders. They sailed big ships with brass guns and made lubbers walk the plank ... right? Wrong. Real pirates didn't look or act much like the pirates in books and movies. They were basically sailors, usually dirty, always smelly, who signed on to small pirate crews for the plunder--but they were unfailingly polite to ladies. And yes, they did own the occasional parrot. Real pirates are much more fascinating than storybook and movie pirates. In this book, award-winning author and artist Jan Adkins reveals the facts behind the fiction in his own swashbuckling style. Pirates may have been sea bandits, but they swore an oath not to play cards or squabble with other pirates. Were they rowdy cutthroats? Maybe, but they elected their own captains and often fired them. They may have carried pistols, muskets, blunderbusses, axes, grapnels, pikes, and swords, but they almost never fired their cannon! They preferred to sneak up on their prizes at night, using stealth and surprise to outwit their victims. What If You Met a Pirate? invites you to meet pirates from every age--real pirates. Sign on, matey, for a rollicking voyage!
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 33 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781596430075
- Publisher:
- Roaring Brook Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/16/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Jan Adkins
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Jamie Yates
- Proofread By:
- robert tweedy
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.