Pirates & smugglers /
Butterfield, Moira 1960-
Pirates & smugglers / Pirates and smugglers Moira Butterfield ; foreword by Stephen Bligh. - Boston : Kingfisher, 2005. - 63 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 28 cm - Kingfisher knowledge .
Includes index.
Explores the colorful history of piracy and smuggling, including the Golden Age of buccaneers, Prohibition-era rumrunners, and endangered wildlife kidnapping. Pirates and Smugglers is a swashbuckling introduction to the highwaymen and women of the seas-from the cruel Cilician pirates who terrorized the Mediterranean more than 2,000 years ago to the well-organized and ruthless modern-day buccaneers who target supertankers on the South China Sea-and the loot they plunder and smuggle.
9780753458648 0753458640
2005007406
Pirates--Juvenile literature.
Smuggling--Juvenile literature.
Privateering--Juvenile literature.
Smugglers--Juvenile literature.
G535 / .B94 2005
910.4/5
Pirates & smugglers / Pirates and smugglers Moira Butterfield ; foreword by Stephen Bligh. - Boston : Kingfisher, 2005. - 63 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 28 cm - Kingfisher knowledge .
Includes index.
Explores the colorful history of piracy and smuggling, including the Golden Age of buccaneers, Prohibition-era rumrunners, and endangered wildlife kidnapping. Pirates and Smugglers is a swashbuckling introduction to the highwaymen and women of the seas-from the cruel Cilician pirates who terrorized the Mediterranean more than 2,000 years ago to the well-organized and ruthless modern-day buccaneers who target supertankers on the South China Sea-and the loot they plunder and smuggle.
9780753458648 0753458640
2005007406
Pirates--Juvenile literature.
Smuggling--Juvenile literature.
Privateering--Juvenile literature.
Smugglers--Juvenile literature.
G535 / .B94 2005
910.4/5