num_pages: 161
description: The creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series takes readers to the shores of nineteenth-century Northern Africa, where American merchant ships were threatened by pirates, to tell the true tales of thrilling ocean battles, hand-to-hand combat, and the first landing on foreign soil by the U.S. Marines. Simultaneous.
language: English
title: The Barbary Pirates
titlecomplete: The Barbary Pirates
characters: Steven Decatur, Commodore Preble
genres: Historical, Military Fiction, Literature, History, Childrens, Pirates, Adventure, American History, War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 472
places: The United States of America
series: U.S. Landmark Books
publisher: Union Square Kids