I wanted to share a new book I received The Penguin Book of Pirates Katherine Howe (Author, Narrator), Jaime Lamchick (Narrator), Matthew Lloyd Davies (Narrator), & 2 more. I received in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the products you purchase.
When Charlie was #Homeschooling full time we loved learning about #Pirates and one of our favorite #Holidays was #TalkLikeAPirateDay. I can’t wait until Christmas to give Charlie The Penguin Book of Pirates for him and his dad to read together.
I did sit down this morning and browsed through the book and I loved finding out there was women Pirates which I think might have been neat to be one. Would you have liked to be a #Pirate as well? I would have liked to be on Blackbear’s Ship. What about you?
The book begins in The Seventeenth Century and Before and included Francis Drake who Charlie has studied in school. Then the story goes into the Golden Age and we learned about Edward “Bkllckbeard” Teach,
Then we moved into the Nineteenth Century and was ablet o study Jean Laffite a Pirate David likes. In the appendix we leaned about Robert Lois Stevenson I know Charlie is going to want to know more about. Treasure Island one of my favorite books. What about you?
I like how the Author took the time to include notes for further reading which is more #teachingmoments for my family.
About: The Penguin Book of Pirates
Real-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates—both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond—compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself
A Penguin Classic
Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the no-man’s-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists.
Here, in a fascinating array of accounts that include trial transcripts, journalism, ship logs, and more, are the grit and patois of real maritime marauders like the infamous Blackbeard; the pirates who inspired Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, Stede Bonnet in Max’s Our Flag Means Death, and the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride; the astoundingly egalitarian multi-ethnic and multilingual crews that became enmeshed in historical horrors like the slave trade; and lesser-known but no less formidable women pirates, many of whom disguised themselves as men.
By turns brutal, harrowing, and inspiring, these accounts of the “radically free” sailors who were citizens more of the oceangoing world than of any nation on land remind us of the glories and dangers of the open seas and the seductive appeal of communities forged in resistance.
For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Meet the Author:
Katherine Howe
Photo: © Beowulf Sheehan
Katherine Howe is a bestselling and award-winning historian and novelist who is a direct descendant of a nineteenth-century Sailor who battled Pirates on the high seas as well as three women who were tried for Witchcraft in Salem.
She is the editor of The Penguin Book of Pirates and The Penguin Book of Witches; the author of the novels A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself and The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs.
The New York Times bestselling novels The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The House of Velvet and Glass, and the young adult novels Conversion and The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen; and the coauthor with Anderson Cooper of the New York Times bestsellers Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty and Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune.A native Houstonian, she lives and sails with her family in New England.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
