Piracy: The Complete History free ebook download.

Home : Book details

Piracy: The Complete History free ebook download

Category:
Military Science

Views: 241
Likes: 5

Catalogue

Author(s):	Angus Konstam

Date:	2008	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1846032407
Pages:	342	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	Materialistic	Upload Date:	6/8/2024 3:45:45 PM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

1846032407 pdf
When we think of pirates we conjure up images of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, or even fictional pirates such as Long John Silver, Captain Hook and Captain Jack Sparrow. These historical characters all hailed from one period. Known as "The Golden Age of Piracy", this period only lasted around a quarter of a century - from around 1700 until 1725. However, piracy has been around a lot longer than that. In fact ever since people started venturing onto the sea, others were waiting to waylay them.

Pirate expert Angus Konstam sails through the brutal history of piracy, from the pirates who plagued the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans to the Viking raids on northern Europe through the golden age of piracy and on to the era of privateers who flourished during a period of constant warring on the European continent. He then examines the West's initial encounters with Eastern pirates off the Chinese coast whose confederations had sprung up in the 17th century and whose actions were severely hampering the West by the 19th century. Finally Konstam examines the phenomenon of the modern pirate, preying on modern super tankers. The reality of piracy is that it is a vicious, often deadly business. By separating the realities of piracy from the Hollywood-inspired fiction, and by tracing the development of piracy through the centuries, this book gives a realistic vision of what piracy actually involves.

The book includes approximately 100 color and black & white images, eight maps, a glossary of sea terms, notes on sources and a bibliography.

Contents
Chapter 1: Piracy in the Ancient World  Chapter 2: Medieval Pirates  Chapter 3: The Sea Dogs of the Renaissance  Chapter 4: Mediterranean Corsairs  Chapter 5: The Buccaneers of the Caribbean  Chapter 6: The Golden Age of Piracy  Chapter 7: The Pirate Round  Chapter 8: The Last of the Pirates  Chapter 9 The Chinese Pirates  Chapter 10: Modern Pirates  Chapter 11: Pirates in Fiction  Conclusion

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
3261706	Download	https://nitroflare.com/view/9FABA8232838...		117.80	Materialistic

Tags: Complete History Piracy

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:
Comments

New comment: