Pirates & smugglers
By: Moira Butterfield ; foreword by Stephen Bligh.
Series: Kingfisher knowledge
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Pirates -- Juvenile literature; Smuggling -- Juvenile literature; Privateering -- Juvenile literature; Smugglers -- Juvenile literature; Pirates; Smuggling; Privateering; Smugglers
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Pirates and smugglers
Description: Explores the colorful history of piracy and smuggling, including the Golden Age of buccaneers, Prohibition-era rumrunners, and endangered wildlife kidnapping. Pirates and Smugglers is a swashbuckling introduction to the highwaymen and women of the seas-from the cruel Cilician pirates who terrorized the Mediterranean more than 2,000 years ago to the well-organized and ruthless modern-day buccaneers who target supertankers on the South China Sea-and the loot they plunder and smuggle.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: First pirates: Ancient times; title: Northern menace; title: Slave pirates; title: Plundering privateers; title: Spanish main; title: Summary; title: Golden age: Buccaneers; title: Blackbeard's time; title: Pirate attack; title: Life on board; title: Pirates on land; title: Female pirates; title: Pirate punishments; title: Chinese pirate fleets; title: Political pirates; title: Secretive smugglers; title: Smuggling facts and fiction; title: Summary; title: Modern piracy and smuggling: Rumrunners; title: Modern-day smuggling; title: Wildlife smugglers; title: Smuggling people; title: Pirates today; title: Catching the criminals; title: Shipwreck hunters; title: Summary; title: Glossary; title: Index; title: Acknowledgments.