Pirates: Swashbuckling Stories from the Seven SeasJennifer Willis Hachette Books, 17 jun 2009 - 368 pagina's The surprising success of Pirates of the Caribbean, a new screen adaptation of the classic Peter Pan, and the Russell Crowe film Master and Commander have fueled interest in seagoing swashbucklers. There is a rich literature on pirates -- both in fiction and nonfiction. This collection offers excerpts from the works of contemporary authors: Patrick O'Brian's riveting account of a sea battle with Borneo's pirates will enthrall his fans; Farley Mowat's The Black Joke is a rousing adventure of the rum-running set in the 1930s and written in the tradition of the great classic pirate tales. Readers will also discover and rediscover the most infamous pirates of yore, from Treasure Island's Long John Silver to Peter Pan's Captain Hook. They'll encounter pirate adventures from neglected classics such as L. Frank Baum's Pirates in Oz, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo and Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood. And they'll find accounts of the dastardly deeds of female pirates both real (Anne Bonney and Mary Read) and imagined (Arthur Ransome's Chinese pirate Miss Lee). Pirates also draws upon colorful true-life accounts and authentic first-person narratives of pirates -- and their victims -- discovered in nearly forgotten works such as The Pirates Own Book and Captured by Pirates. |
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The Ghost of Captain Brand from Howard Pyles | 55 |
A Treasure Hunt in the Caribbees | 89 |
from The Dark Frigate | 111 |
from Pirates In Oz | 131 |
from The King of Pirates | 159 |
from The Black Buccaneer | 183 |
The Uneasy Ghost of Lafitte | 247 |
Blackbeard from Pirate Tales from the Law | 273 |
Gentleman of Fortune | 303 |
The Pirate Princess | 325 |
from The Count of Monte Cristo | 349 |
The Tigers of Mompracem | 373 |
Short Glossary of Nautical Terms | 399 |
The Story of Buried Treasure | 199 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 25 - I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; 205 B his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails ; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
Pagina 236 - I have the honor of your excellency's answer, which I am persuaded can be dictated only by wisdom. Should your answer not be favorable to my ardent desires, I declare to you that I will instantly leave the country, to avoid the imputation of having cooperated towards an invasion on this point, which cannot fail to take place, and to rest secure in the acquittal of my conscience.
Pagina 29 - Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Pagina 159 - Now!" cried all the boys, but with a magnificent gesture Peter invited his opponent to pick up his sword. Hook did so instantly, but with a tragic feeling that Peter was showing good form. Hitherto he had thought it was some fiend fighting him, but darker suspicions assailed him now. "Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I 'ma little bird that has broken out of the egg.
Pagina 223 - He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never- could divine his real thought.
Pagina 52 - The supervisor stood up straight and stiff, and told his story like a lesson ; and you should have seen how the two gentlemen leaned forward and looked at each other, and forgot to smoke in their surprise and interest. When they heard how my mother went back to the inn, Dr. Livesey fairly slapped his thigh, and the squire cried " Bravo ! " and broke his long pipe against the grate. Long before it was done, Mr. Trelawney (that, you will remember, was the squire's name) had got up from his seat, and...
Pagina 235 - Sir — In the firm persuasion that the choice made of you to fill the office of first magistrate of this state, was dictated by the esteem of your fellow citizens, and was conferred on merit, I confidently address you on an affair on which may depend the safety of this country. I offer to you to restore to this state several citizens, who perhaps in your eyes have lost that sacred title.
Pagina 30 - Then followed a battle of looks between them ; but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.
Pagina 26 - I've worked through that," says he, looking as fierce as a commander. And, indeed, bad as his clothes were, and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast; but seemed like a mate or skipper, accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. The man who came with the barrow told us the mail had set him down the morning before at the " Royal George;" that he had inquired what inns there were along the coast, and hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and described...
Pagina 27 - How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners of the house, and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions. Now the leg would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip ; now he was a monstrous kind of a creature who had never had but the one leg, and that in the middle of his body. To see him leap and run and pursue me over hedge and ditch was...