Grim men armed with pistols and cutlasses swagger about the deck.
They give way to the one-legged man with the big smile and the parrot on his shoulder. No one doubts he is the most dangerous of them all. Charles Scribner and Sons was already an established publishing firm when the decision was made to release a new series of classic stories for children. These would be handsome books bound in black cloth with pictorial covers and profusely illustrated with rich full-color plates printed on glossy paper. Wyeth's pirates and sea-dogs, therefore, breathed with authenticity.