Pirates and privateers in the New World
Subtitle: moments in history
By: Shirley Jordan.
Series: Cover-to-cover books
Publisher: Prefection Learning
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Logan, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Pirates -- America -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Buccaneers -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Privateering -- America -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Pirates.; Buccaneers.; Privateering.; America -- History, Naval -- Juvenile literature.; America -- History, Naval.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Timeline of Important Events 4; title: Chapter 1 Attack on the High Seas 6; title: Chapter 2 Pirates of the New World 10; title: Chapter 3 The Beginning of Piracy in the Americas 12; title: Chapter 4 The Treasure Galleons of the Spanish Main 15; title: Chapter 5 Life on Board the Pirate Ship 19; title: Chapter 6 The Pirate Code of Conduct 21; title: Chapter 7 A Queen's Privateers 23; title: Chapter 8 L'Olonnois the Cruel 27; title: Chapter 9 Morgan the Terrible 32; title: Chapter 10 A Musical Pirate 37; title: Chapter 11 Captain William Kidd 39; title: Chapter 12 Blackbeard the Pirate 44; title: Chapter 13 Stede Bonnet, a Gentleman Pirate 49; title: Chapter 14 Black Bart the Pirate 50; title: Chapter 15 Two Women Under the Jolly Roger Flag 52; title: Chapter 16 Low and Phillips 57; title: Chapter 17 Privateers and the American Revolution 58; title: Chapter 18 Jean Lafitte 59; title: Chapter 19 California's Pirate 63; title: Chapter 20 Piracy Comes to an End in the New World67; title: Glossary68; title: Index 71.