Pirates and Privateers
The History of Maritime Piracy

Cindy Vallar, Editor & Reviewer
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Oh to Be a Pirate
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Pirates and Their Clothes
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
The Golden Age of Piracy
í víking – Norse who went plundering and Q & A
Jolly Roger and No Quarter Given
Pirate Treasure
Punishing the Pirates
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
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
Scottish Pirates

Pirates and Literature

Fictional Pirates
The Lure of Piracy - Realty vs. Romanticism
Superstitions and the Sea

Privateers

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

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Galleys to Junks
Shipwrecked Treasure Galleons
The Spanish Galleons

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The Bookaneer

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5-Star Review Books

Captain Sinister’s Lady
Hawke
In the Time of Worms
Morevi
The Only Life That Mattered
The Pirate Next Door
The Pirate Round
Pirates of Pensacola
The Redemption

The Barbary Wars
British Piracy in the Golden Age
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates
Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas
Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder
Empire of Blue Water
The Everything Pirates Book
Gentlemen’s Blood
The Global Schooner
Granuaile
Guide to Pirate Parenting
If a Pirate I Must Be...
The Maritime Heritage of the Cayman Islands
Piracy...Terrorism...Malacca Straits
The Pirate Hunter: the True Story of Captain Kidd
The Pirate Primer
The Pirate Ship 1660-1730
The Pirate Soul
Pirates: Predators of the Seas
Pirates Aboard
Pirates in the Age of Sail
The Pirates Laffite
Pirates of the East Coast...Caribbean Sea (CD)
Real Canadian Pirates
The Republic of Pirates
The Sea Rover's Practice
Skull & Saltire
Villains of All Nations
X Marks the Spot

Bloody Jack
Capt. Hook
Discovering Pirates
Ghost Ship
Keeper of the Island
Lost Treasures of the Pirates of the Caribbean
My Mom the Pirate
Nick of Time
Peter and the Starcatchers
Peter Raven under Fire
Pirate
Pirate Adventures
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
See-Through Pirates
Violet and the Mean and Rotten Pirates
Vampirates
Voyage of Plunder

1001 Pirate Things to Spot
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
Pirates Don't Change Diapers
Port Side Pirates!
See Inside Pirate Ships

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