Author: TOM Bennett
Publisher: TOM Bennett
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Round the World cruising yachtsmen are targets for sea robberies from opportunist fishermen to being held hostage by ruthless extremists who chop heads of if huge ransom money is not paid. Tom's Tips gives some practical ideas to minimize such attacks. Everything from making dummy crewmen to sit in the cockpit at night to fixing an electric fence around your yacht to deter boarding, are all covered in this book. A must read for all intending to start cruising to exotic destinations and a useful book for those already afloat on the other side of the world.
Pirate Attack! (A 3D Virtual Pop-up Book)
Author: John Matthews
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781847325853
Category : Pirates
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
'Pirate Attack' brilliantly captures the swashbuckling world of the greatest buccaneers. Containing detailed biographies of legendary pirates plus features on their weapons, codes of conduct, and punishments, the result is a compelling portrait of life at sea in a bygone age.
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781847325853
Category : Pirates
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
'Pirate Attack' brilliantly captures the swashbuckling world of the greatest buccaneers. Containing detailed biographies of legendary pirates plus features on their weapons, codes of conduct, and punishments, the result is a compelling portrait of life at sea in a bygone age.
PIRATE ATTACK Tom' Tips on Security, Safety & Scams for Round the World Sailors. i
Author: TOM Bennett
Publisher: TOM Bennett
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Round the World cruising yachtsmen are targets for sea robberies from opportunist fishermen to being held hostage by ruthless extremists who chop heads of if huge ransom money is not paid. Tom's Tips gives some practical ideas to minimize such attacks. Everything from making dummy crewmen to sit in the cockpit at night to fixing an electric fence around your yacht to deter boarding, are all covered in this book. A must read for all intending to start cruising to exotic destinations and a useful book for those already afloat on the other side of the world.
Publisher: TOM Bennett
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Round the World cruising yachtsmen are targets for sea robberies from opportunist fishermen to being held hostage by ruthless extremists who chop heads of if huge ransom money is not paid. Tom's Tips gives some practical ideas to minimize such attacks. Everything from making dummy crewmen to sit in the cockpit at night to fixing an electric fence around your yacht to deter boarding, are all covered in this book. A must read for all intending to start cruising to exotic destinations and a useful book for those already afloat on the other side of the world.
Pirate Spacecat Attack (Geronimo Stilton Spacemice #10)
Author: Geronimo Stilton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338088610
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Spacemouse Geronimo Stiltonix's adventures are out of this world! The on board computer on spaceship MouseStar 1, Hologramix, is out of order! To fix it, Geronimo Stiltonix must take it to a brilliant inventor who lives on a distant planet. But while Hologramix is being repaired, pirate spacecats attack, and steal it! Can the spacemice get Hologramix back before the spacecats turn it evil and set it against them?
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338088610
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Spacemouse Geronimo Stiltonix's adventures are out of this world! The on board computer on spaceship MouseStar 1, Hologramix, is out of order! To fix it, Geronimo Stiltonix must take it to a brilliant inventor who lives on a distant planet. But while Hologramix is being repaired, pirate spacecats attack, and steal it! Can the spacemice get Hologramix back before the spacecats turn it evil and set it against them?
Jack and the Pirate Attack
Author: Amy Hernandez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989118026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Be captivated with Jack's newest adventure as he stands up against fearless pirates to save unworthy bullies. Will Jack succeed?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989118026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Be captivated with Jack's newest adventure as he stands up against fearless pirates to save unworthy bullies. Will Jack succeed?
Global Piracy
Author: James E. Wadsworth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350058203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents which illustrate the global phenomenon of piracy through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it: both the pirates or privateers themselves and their victims. The book allows us to confront our stereotypes by giving us access to “real” pirates in a wide range of historical periods and global regions, from ancient Greece to modern day Nigeria, unfiltered as much as possible by authorial voice or interpretation. Global Piracy seeks neither to romanticize nor vilify pirates, but simply to understand them in the context of their times and the broader world they inhabited. Departing from run-of-the-mill narratives, it selects documents which provide new and fascinating insights into piracy around the globe. With documents introduced by contextual information, and supplemented by study questions, suggested reading lists, illustrations and maps, this book is an essential companion for anyone studying the history of piracy.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350058203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents which illustrate the global phenomenon of piracy through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it: both the pirates or privateers themselves and their victims. The book allows us to confront our stereotypes by giving us access to “real” pirates in a wide range of historical periods and global regions, from ancient Greece to modern day Nigeria, unfiltered as much as possible by authorial voice or interpretation. Global Piracy seeks neither to romanticize nor vilify pirates, but simply to understand them in the context of their times and the broader world they inhabited. Departing from run-of-the-mill narratives, it selects documents which provide new and fascinating insights into piracy around the globe. With documents introduced by contextual information, and supplemented by study questions, suggested reading lists, illustrations and maps, this book is an essential companion for anyone studying the history of piracy.
Attack on the High Seas
Author: Brian James
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781599615844
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A boring homework assignment involving knot tying proves invaluable when the student pirates help Captain Stinky Beard foil an attack by a rival pirate ship.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781599615844
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A boring homework assignment involving knot tying proves invaluable when the student pirates help Captain Stinky Beard foil an attack by a rival pirate ship.
Piracy at Sea
Author: Maximo Q. Mejia, Jr.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642396208
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Over more than three decades starting in the 1990s, thousands of robberies, acts of piracy, and other violent attacks against merchant vessels have been reported in many of the world’s waters. The grave danger of piracy poses a direct threat not only to the security and efficiency of marine transportation, but more seriously, to the lives of the men and woman carrying out this important function. This book collates ideas brought up by seafarers, shipowners, industry practitioners, government officials, academics, and researchers exchanged views and insights on the complex web of underlying factors behind the phenomenon of piracy. Piracy at Sea brings together a wide spectrum of maritime stakeholders, who present different aspects of the problem in an open manner and share their thoughts on how to deal with a truly complex situation. It encapsulates this collective wisdom in a publication that can serve as an easy reference for practitioners as well as researchers, and hopefully contribute to more concrete action.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642396208
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Over more than three decades starting in the 1990s, thousands of robberies, acts of piracy, and other violent attacks against merchant vessels have been reported in many of the world’s waters. The grave danger of piracy poses a direct threat not only to the security and efficiency of marine transportation, but more seriously, to the lives of the men and woman carrying out this important function. This book collates ideas brought up by seafarers, shipowners, industry practitioners, government officials, academics, and researchers exchanged views and insights on the complex web of underlying factors behind the phenomenon of piracy. Piracy at Sea brings together a wide spectrum of maritime stakeholders, who present different aspects of the problem in an open manner and share their thoughts on how to deal with a truly complex situation. It encapsulates this collective wisdom in a publication that can serve as an easy reference for practitioners as well as researchers, and hopefully contribute to more concrete action.
Blackbeard’s Last Fight
Author: Angus Konstam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780961979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers – licenced pirates – preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach – more popularly known as “Blackbeard”. He joined the pirates in New Providence (now Nassau) in the Bahamas, and by early 1717 he had become a pirate captain. From then on he caused havoc off the North American seaboard, in the West Indies and off Honduras, before appearing off Charleston, South Carolina in May 1718. He blockaded this major port for a week, an act that made Blackbeard the most notorious pirate of his day.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780961979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers – licenced pirates – preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach – more popularly known as “Blackbeard”. He joined the pirates in New Providence (now Nassau) in the Bahamas, and by early 1717 he had become a pirate captain. From then on he caused havoc off the North American seaboard, in the West Indies and off Honduras, before appearing off Charleston, South Carolina in May 1718. He blockaded this major port for a week, an act that made Blackbeard the most notorious pirate of his day.
Pirate Lands
Author: Ursula Daxecker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019009740X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maritime piracy's improbable re-emergence following the end of the Cold War was surprising as the image of pirates evokes masted galleons and cutlasses. Yet, the number of incidents and their intensity skyrocketed in the 1990s and 2000s off of the coasts of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Somalia. As Ursula Daxecker and Brandon Prins demonstrate in Pirate Lands, Maritime piracy-like civil war, terrorism, and organized crime-is a problem of weak states. Surprisingly, though, pirates do not operate in the least governed areas of weak states. Daxecker and Prins address this puzzle by explaining why some coastal communities experience more pirate attacks in their vicinity than others. They find that pirates do well in places where elites and law enforcement can be bribed, but they also need access to functioning roads, ports, and markets. Using statistical analyses of cross-national and sub-national data on pirate attacks in Indonesia, Nigeria, and Somalia, Daxecker and Prins detail how governance at the state and local level explain the location of maritime piracy. Additionally, they employ geo-spatial tools to rigorously measure how local political capacity and infrastructure affect maritime piracy. Drawing upon interviews with former pirates, community members, and maritime security experts, Pirate Lands offers the first comprehensive, social-scientific account of a phenomenon whose re-appearance after centuries of remission took almost everyone by surprise.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019009740X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maritime piracy's improbable re-emergence following the end of the Cold War was surprising as the image of pirates evokes masted galleons and cutlasses. Yet, the number of incidents and their intensity skyrocketed in the 1990s and 2000s off of the coasts of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Somalia. As Ursula Daxecker and Brandon Prins demonstrate in Pirate Lands, Maritime piracy-like civil war, terrorism, and organized crime-is a problem of weak states. Surprisingly, though, pirates do not operate in the least governed areas of weak states. Daxecker and Prins address this puzzle by explaining why some coastal communities experience more pirate attacks in their vicinity than others. They find that pirates do well in places where elites and law enforcement can be bribed, but they also need access to functioning roads, ports, and markets. Using statistical analyses of cross-national and sub-national data on pirate attacks in Indonesia, Nigeria, and Somalia, Daxecker and Prins detail how governance at the state and local level explain the location of maritime piracy. Additionally, they employ geo-spatial tools to rigorously measure how local political capacity and infrastructure affect maritime piracy. Drawing upon interviews with former pirates, community members, and maritime security experts, Pirate Lands offers the first comprehensive, social-scientific account of a phenomenon whose re-appearance after centuries of remission took almost everyone by surprise.
Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism
Author: Martin N. Murphy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113497552X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them? Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections between organised piracy and wider criminal networks and corruption on land make it an element of a phenomenon that can have a weakening effect on states and a destabilising one on the regions in which it is found. Furthermore, it is also an aspect of a broader problem of disorder at sea that, exacerbated by the increasing pressure on littoral waters from growing numbers of people and organisations seeking to exploit maritime resources, encourages maritime criminality and gives insurgents and terrorists the freedom to operate. In this context, maritime terrorism, though currently only a low-level threat, has the potential to spread and become more effective in the event of political change on land. It is only by addressing the issue of generalised maritime disorder that the problems of piracy and maritime terrorism may be controlled in the long term.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113497552X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them? Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections between organised piracy and wider criminal networks and corruption on land make it an element of a phenomenon that can have a weakening effect on states and a destabilising one on the regions in which it is found. Furthermore, it is also an aspect of a broader problem of disorder at sea that, exacerbated by the increasing pressure on littoral waters from growing numbers of people and organisations seeking to exploit maritime resources, encourages maritime criminality and gives insurgents and terrorists the freedom to operate. In this context, maritime terrorism, though currently only a low-level threat, has the potential to spread and become more effective in the event of political change on land. It is only by addressing the issue of generalised maritime disorder that the problems of piracy and maritime terrorism may be controlled in the long term.