Pirates and Privateers
Publisher: Pocket Essentiials; Chartwell Books; Pocket Essentials
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781842432310
Subjects: Maritime history; General; History; Piracy; Pirates; History: World
Description: Offers a history of piracy, from ancient times through the Renaissance 'privateers' such as Drake, with their Letters of Marque (an early example of State-sponsored terrorism), to the real and flourishing threat of contemporary pirates that patrol the less well-regulated shipping lanes of the world.