Grades 5 & up: Nonfiction
Tags: WORLD of the Pirate, The (Book); PIRATES
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- Books for youth: Books for middle readers. Hester, Denia // Booklist;02/01/98, Vol. 94 Issue 11, p914
Reviews the book `The World of the Pirate,' by Val Garwood.
- Buccaneer's bivouac. Childress, Diana; Gallo, Beth // Cobblestone;Jun93, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p8
Lists the best pirate hideouts, those which lay within easy striking distance of major shipping lanes. Tortuga; Cow Island; Port Royal, Jamaica; Juan Fernandez; New Providence Island; Madagascar; Barbary Coast, North Africa; Gardiners Island, New England Coast; More.
- The sea robber sisterhood. Weatherly, Myra S. // Cobblestone;Jun93, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p26
Highlights several women pirates. Anne Bonny; Mary Read; Fanny Campbell, America's first female pirate; Rachel Wall; Details.
- Elsewhere. Brown, D.P. // Cobblestone;Jun93, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p30
Offers a look at pirates, then and now. Mediteranean pirates and the Roman Empire; Francis Drake, possible architect of the Money Pit, a suspected treasure stash in Nova Scotia; Merchant ships still targets of modern-day pirates; Examples; Details.
- Georgetown pirates. Wilkinson, Bert // New Internationalist;Oct94, Issue 260, p30
Reports on pirate attacks in Port Georgetown, Guyana. Implications; Method of operation; Failure of security measures.
- Somali pirates hold science to ransom. // New Scientist;2/13/2010, Vol. 205 Issue 2747, p6
The article discusses the study of Laurent Dagorn of Research Institute for Development (IRD) in France about the impact of Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on scientific researches and the ocean's ecosystem.
- IMO fights piracy. // United Nations Chronicle;Jun93, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p79
Presents an overview of the first meeting of a working group on piracy, established by the International Maritime Ogranization (IMO), held at the Organization's headquarters in London on January 14, 1993. Established to fight piracy and armed robbery of ships which had increased substantially...
- Rough seas? Vagg, Jon // British Journal of Criminology;Winter95, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p63
Discusses piracy in Southeast Asia, with emphasis on the Riau Archipelago or the waters around Singapore and the Indonesian islands to its south. Factors behind the wave of attacks in the archipelago; Cultural acceptance of piracy; Piracy as a product of economic development and dislocation;...
- In Asian waters, sea pirates eschew eye patches, steal ships via Internet. Tan, Abby // Christian Science Monitor;6/13/96, Vol. 88 Issue 139, p7
Reports on the onslaught of sea pirates in Philippine waters. Increase in the number of reports of Chinese vessels robbing international merchant ships in the nation's waters during 1995; Wholesale stealing or hijacking of ships; South China Sea area as one of the most vulnerable to attacks and...
