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" Pirates and privateers / "
Tom Bowling.
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BL
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1020099
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b774469
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| Main Entry
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Bowling, Tom
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| Title & Author
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Pirates and privateers /\ Tom Bowling.
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| Publication Statement
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Harpenden :: Pocket Essentials,, [2008]
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, ©2008
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160 pages :: maps ;; 20 cm
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| ISBN
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1842432311
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: 9781842432310
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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What is a pirate? -- Becoming a pirate -- Pirate or privateer? -- The greatest act of piracy -- Blackbeard -- Women pirates -- Pirates aground.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Piracy-- History.
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Pirates-- History.
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Piracy.
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Pirates.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.164
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G535.B69 2008x
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