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A fascinating study of pirates throughout history, packed with pirate-related artworks and objects from the National Maritime Museum collection. The image of the pirate is one that has never failed to capture the imagination, but behind the melodramatic portrayals of villains like Long John Silver, complete with wooden leg and eye-patch, lies a much harsher reality. David Cordingly and John Falconer chart the history of piracy; explore the portrayal of pirates in popular literature, film, and TV; and examine the tools of the pirate trade, including maps, charts, flags, weapons, and ships. Alongside this telling history, the one hundred color illustrations in Pirates: Fact and Fiction showcase the stunning artworks and artifacts within the National Maritime Museum's vast collection to shine new light on a subject of perennial interest. … (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In an honest service, there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labour. In this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one shall be my motto. - Bartholomew Roberts on his reasons for taking to piracy
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
'I have brought you to the treasure house of the world', Francis Drake told his men as he prepared to attack Nombre de Dios in 1572.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
As long as wealth is transported across the largely unpoliced oceans of the world, the pirate will continue to attack this easy prey, carrying on a tradition which goes back thousands of years to the dawn of seaborne trade.
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A fascinating study of pirates throughout history, packed with pirate-related artworks and objects from the National Maritime Museum collection. The image of the pirate is one that has never failed to capture the imagination, but behind the melodramatic portrayals of villains like Long John Silver, complete with wooden leg and eye-patch, lies a much harsher reality. David Cordingly and John Falconer chart the history of piracy; explore the portrayal of pirates in popular literature, film, and TV; and examine the tools of the pirate trade, including maps, charts, flags, weapons, and ships. Alongside this telling history, the one hundred color illustrations in Pirates: Fact and Fiction showcase the stunning artworks and artifacts within the National Maritime Museum's vast collection to shine new light on a subject of perennial interest.
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