Pirates and Privateers
The History of Maritime Piracy

Cindy Vallar, Editor & Reviewer
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Being a Pirate

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Oh to Be a Pirate
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Pirates and Their Clothes
A Pirates' Arsenal of Torture
Punishing Their Own and Hunting Prey
To Capture Prey and Plunder It
When is a Pirate not a Pirate?

History

Captives of the Barbary States
Cotton Mather, Preacher to the Pirates
The Golden Age of Piracy
í víking – Norse who went plundering and Q & A
Jolly Roger and No Quarter Given
Pirate Treasure
Pirates & Religion
Punishing the Pirates
Tracing the Golden Age of Piracy
Women and the Jolly Roger

Modern Piracy

Modern Piracy: 2005 Update
Piracy of Yore vs. Piracy Today
Piracy and the Law
Piracy versus Terrorism
Cost of Piracy
Profile of a Pirate
Combating Piracy

Notorious Pirates

Alfhld Princess and Viking
The Barbary Corsairs
Black Pirates
A Buccaneer More Interested in Nature than Gold
The Buccaneers
Captain William Kidd
Cheng I Sao
Famous Barbary Corsairs
Fléau des Espagnois – Flail of the Spaniards
Granuaile (aka Grace O’Malley) – Irish Pirate
Henry Every
Patriots or Pirates?
Pirate, Rebel, Freedom Fighter, Champion of the Poor
Pyrate Surgeons
Rachel Wall
A Trio of Pirates

Piracy Around the World

Notorious Pirate Havens

The Ancient World
Around the World
Madagascar
Port Royal
Tortuga and New Providence
In League with the Pirates

Pirates of Canada
The Pirates of San Augustín
Scottish Pirates

Pirates and Literature

Captain Blood - The History behind the Novel
Fictional Pirates
Johnson vs. Defoe
The Lure of Piracy - Realty vs. Romanticism
Superstitions and the Sea

Privateers

Alexander Selkirk
Dominique Youx, Intrepid Warrior
Canadian Privateers
Fells Point and the Baltimore Privateers
James Forten
Jean Laffite, Enima and Legend
The Privateers - an Introduction

Ships & Maritime History

Galleys to Junks
Shipwrecked Treasure Galleons
Smuggling
The Spanish Galleons

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The Bookaneer

Books for Young Pirates
Books for Pirate Apprentices and Young Adults
Books for Adults - Fiction
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5-Star Review Books

The Barbary Pirates
Blood Brothers
Bring It Close
Buccaneer
Captain Sinister’s Lady
Gather the Shadowmen
The Guise of a Gentleman
Hawke
The Jefferson Key
In the Time of Worms
A Kiss in the Wind
Master of the Sweet Trade
Morevi
The Mountain of Gold
The Only Life That Mattered
Pirate Code
Pirate King
The Pirate Next Door
The Pirate Rebel
The Pirate Round
Pirates of Pensacola
Pirates' Pay
The Power & the Glory
The Redemption
Sandokan: The King of the Sea
Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
Sea Robber
A Ship for the King
Silver
Surgeon’s Mate
Those in Peril

1812
The Barbary Wars
Bizarro Buccaneers
British Piracy in the Golden Age
Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates
Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia
Coping with Capture
Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas
De Ruyter
Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder
Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers
Empire of Blue Water
The Everything Pirates Book
Gentlemen’s Blood
The Global Schooner
The Glorious First of June
Granuaile
Guide to Pirate Parenting
If a Pirate I Must Be...
The Last Days of Black Beard
The Maritime Heritage of the Cayman Islands
A Modern Plague of Pirates
Monsoon Traders
Perilous Fight
Piracy: The Complete History
Piracy...Terrorism...Malacca Straits
The Pirate and the Puritan
The Pirate Hunter: the True Story of Captain Kidd
Pirate Killers
The Pirate Primer
The Pirate Round
The Pirate Ship 1660-1730
The Pirate Soul
Pirates: A History
Pirates: Predators of the Seas
Pirates Aboard
The Pirates of Somalia
Pirates of the Americas
Pirates in the Age of Sail
Pirates, Jack Tar, and Memory
The Pirates Laffite
Pirates of the East Coast...Caribbean Sea (CD)
Pirates, Terrorists, and Warlords
Raising Black Flags
Real Canadian Pirates
The Republic of Pirates
Royal Tars
The Sea Rover's Practice
Skull & Saltire
Somalia, the New Barbary?
Vasa
Villains of All Nations
Voyage to Jamestown
The War of 1812
The Way of the Ship
The World Atlas of Piracy
X Marks the Spot

Alex and the Ironic Gentleman
Baltazar and the Flying Pirates
Bloody Jack
The Book of Pirates
Capt. Hook
Captured by Pirates
The Dagger Quick
Discovering Pirates
Ghost Ship
Isle of Swords
Keeper of the Island
Lost Treasures of the Pirates of the Caribbean
Misty Gordon and the Mystery of the Ghost Pirates
My Mom the Pirate
Natalie's Good Fortune
Nick of Time
Peter and the Starcatchers
Peter Raven under Fire
Pirate
Pirate Adventures
The Pirate Captain's Daughter
Pirate Diary
Pirate Ship
Pirate’s Handbook
The Pirate's Sister
Pirates
Pirates (series)
Pirates of the North Carolina Coast
Pirates, Ships, and Sailors
Polly and the Pirates
The Pop-up Book of Ships
Sandokan: The King of the Sea
Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
Scratch and the Pirates of Paradise Cove
Sea Queens
See-Through Pirates
Uncle Pirate
Violet and the Mean and Rotten Pirates
Vampirates
Voyage of Plunder
Will of the Pirates

1001 Pirate Things to Spot
An ABC of Pirates
The Castaway Pirates
Charlotte Jane Battles Bedtime
Fluffy: Scourge of the Sea
Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies
I Love My Pirate Papa
Inside Jolly Roger's Pirate Ship
A Li’l Pirate’s ABSeas
The Night Pirates
Pirate Pete's Giant Adventure
Pirate Santa
Pirate vs. Pirate
Pirates Don't Change Diapers
Port Side Pirates!
See Inside Pirate Ships
Small Saul
Treasure Ship
When You're a Pirate Dog and Other Pirate Poems

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