Pirates (Inside Access Series)

Get ready for an adventure with Inside Access: Pirates. In the company of Jake Rattlebones, a pirate guide who has explored the high seas, readers get on-the-spot insider knowledge about pirate history, legends, and exploits. Gaining access to life on board a pirate ship, readers discover what it was like to work on deck, live in the quarters, navigate dangerous waters, attack other ships, and seize treasures. Impressive digital imagery morphs illustrations and photographs to show pirate life in magnificent detail. Lift-up flaps reveal unusual pirate facts, completing the exciting interactive experience.

Get ready for an adventure with Inside Access: Pirates. In the company of Jake Rattlebones, a pirate guide who has explored the high seas, readers get on-the-spot insider knowledge about pirate history, legends, and exploits. Gaining access to life on board a pirate ship, readers discover what it was like to work on deck, live in the quarters, navigate dangerous waters, attack other ships, and seize treasures. Impressive digital imagery morphs illustrations and photographs to show pirate life in magnificent detail. Lift-up flaps reveal unusual pirate facts, completing the exciting interactive experience.

Children's Literature

The high seas. Sparkling gold. Bold adventure. These are the aspects of pirate life that trigger the imagination. Now, children can find out more about the thieving seafarers of old in a book packed with full-color photographs, detailed illustrations, fold-out flaps, maps, and diagrams. Learn about the long history of pirating, dating from almost a thousand years B.C. to today. Then, focus on the period of swashbucklers that have become the stereotypical pirates—those of the 1600s and 1700s. Find out about the hard life of those on a pirate ship and the weapons of force they used. Go inside a pirate ship, examining it from bow to stern, above and below deck. Read about the deceptive and intimidating tactics used by many buccaneers, as well as the dismal, violent ends faced by many. Readers whose appetites for all things pirate have been whet by the recent upsurge of buccaneer-themed movies, TV shows, and advertisements are sure to find fodder for their creative play in the pages of this intriguing book. From the "Inside Access" series.

Philip Steele has a passion for writing about history. He is a well-known author of more than one hundred children's books, including Castles, Pirates, Knights, The Best Book of Mummies, The World of Pirates, and The World of Castles. He was a student of medieval French and German literature, and has visited castles in England, France, Germany, Spain, and Poland. He has travelled to the Valley of the Kings and other sites of Ancient Egypt, and has met mummies face to face in the Cairo Museum. Philip now lives near Beaumaris and the other great castles of North Wales.