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Now You Know Pirates

The Little Book of Answers

by (author) Doug Lennox

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2008
Category
Trivia, General, Trivia

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550028065
    Publish Date
    Mar 2008
    List Price
    $9.99

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459718128
    Publish Date
    Mar 2008
    List Price
    $8.99

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Shiver me timbers and avast ye hearties! We think we know pirates, from Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow to Errol Flynn as Captain Blood, or literature’s Long John Silver and Captain Hook. But what do we really know? The true Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Sir Henry Morgan, and lots more, from ancient keelhauling to twenty-first-century buccaneering, are all here in Q & A commodore Doug Lennox’s Now You Know Pirates. Arrrr!

  • What is the origin of the word pirate?
  • Who were the Barbary Corsairs?
  • What did pirates do to St. Patrick?
  • What is the difference between a pirate and a privateer?
  • What is the Oak Island Treasure?
  • How many female pirates have there been?
  • What are "pieces of eight" and "doubloons"?
  • Who were the buccaneers?
  • How old is piracy?

About the author

Doug Lennox was an internationally acclaimed broadcaster, a veteran character actor, a commercial voice artist, and a bestselling author. He appeared in more than 60 films and television features, including X-Men, Police Academy, Lonesome Dove, and Against the Ropes, and shared screen time with Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Burt Reynolds, Holly Hunter, Eric McCormack, Gary Oldman, and a myriad of others. He passed away November 28, 2015.

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