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8) Pirates
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
DK findout! Pirates takes kids back in time to discover the truth behind the myth. With beautiful photography, lively illustrations, and key curriculum information.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the eighteenth century, during the golden age of the pirate, a family of mapmakers was entrusted with all the secrets of the greatest pirates. The McGee's were commissioned by buccaneers to draw maps to their buried treasure. But the mapmakers had a secret of their own; carefully hidden in their maps were clues leading others to the pirates loot! These maps have been lost for hundreds of years until now. The authors have recreated thirteen of the...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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Description
Pirates are an enduring popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirate women -- who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like -- is seldom a part of the conversation. In this Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, A Pirate's Life for She tells the story of 16 women who through the ages sailed alongside -- and sometimes in command of -- their male counterparts....
