Books with title The Bossy Pirate

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The circumstances in which “The Pirate” was composed have for the Editor a peculiar interest. He has many times scribbled at the old bureau in Chiefswood whereon Sir Walter worked at his novel, and sat in summer weather beneath the great tree on the lawn where Erskine used to read the fresh chapters to Lockhart and his wife, while the burn murmured by from the Rhymer’s Glen. So little altered is the cottage of Chiefswood by the addition of a gabled wing in the same red stone as the older portion, so charmed a quiet has the place, in the shelter of Eildon Hill, that there one can readily beget the golden time again, and think oneself back into the day when Mustard and Spice, running down the shady glen, might herald the coming of the Sheriff himself. Happy hours and gone: like that summer of 1821, whereof Lockhart speaks with an emotion the more touching because it is so rare,—

Georgia can swim like a dolphin, do back flips of the gangplank, climb the rigging like a monkey and battle with swords like any swashbuckling pirate. She is the daughter of one of the most famous pirates on the seven seas and he thinks that girls should wear pink and stay out of trouble. But Georgia proves girls can do anything they want to be, if they believe in themselves.

Orphaned in 17th century Whitby, ten years old Carlyle sets off to London to seek his fortune, but is kidnapped by a pirate press gang along with five other street urchins to sail on the ‘Black Prince’ and learn the pirate ways under the leadership of the tyrannical Black Bert. On an epic voyage to the West Indies, he makes friends with another orphan called Woody and a wounded albatross he named Arnie. Carlyle will need all the skills acquired on his late father’s fishing boat to survive life on a pirate ship.A mutiny on the ‘Black Prince’ left many dead, as Black Bert struggled to assert his authority.Sea battles, cannon-fire, hurricanes and swordplay, are all elements of a pirate’s way of life.The pirates become bolder, their fleet expanding. Attacks on ships sailing to the fledgling American Colonies, bring retribution. In a fierce battle with a British Man-o-War the outcome hangs in the balance.What will become of Woody when he jumps ship in Nassau? Will Carlyle survive a shipwreck on the captured Spanish frigate ‘Stella de Cadiz’, renamed ‘Pieces of Eight’? Will they ever see Old England’s shores again?

*This book is Annotated (It contains a biography of the Author).* A contemporary of Charles Dickens, Captain Frederick Marryat was an officer in the Royal British Navy who, also a novelist, certainly followed the old line about writing what you know. The result is an accessible, deeply immersive, high-seas adventure full of chases, battles, baddies getting their comeuppance, the proven loyalty of friends, romance, and reunions. Fair warning that this is a novel of its time, using slurs against and references to captive slaves out of Africa we would not tolerate today.

Orphaned in 17th century Whitby, ten years old Carlyle sets off to London to seek his fortune, but is kidnapped by a pirate press gang along with five other street urchins to sail on the ‘Black Prince’ and learn the pirate ways under the leadership of the tyrannical Black Bert. On an epic voyage to the West Indies, he makes friends with another orphan called Woody and a wounded albatross he named Arnie. Carlyle will need all the skills acquired on his late father’s fishing boat to survive life on a pirate ship.A mutiny on the ‘Black Prince’ left many dead, as Black Bert struggled to assert his authority.Sea battles, cannon-fire, hurricanes and swordplay, are all elements of a pirate’s way of life.The pirates become bolder, their fleet expanding. Attacks on ships sailing to the fledgling American Colonies, bring retribution. In a fierce battle with a British Man-o-War the outcome hangs in the balance.What will become of Woody when he jumps ship in Nassau? Will Carlyle survive a shipwreck on the captured Spanish frigate ‘Stella de Cadiz’, renamed ‘Pieces of Eight’? Will they ever see Old England’s shores again?

Pom Pom is looking forward to the end of term. Over the next six weeks, he swims in the sea for the first time, disguises himself as an iceberg, battles a giant crab and finds a treasure map.He also visits the fair, rides a roller coaster, dodges an evil monkey and eats more candy floss than anyone else. Pom Poms are the very best at summer holidays.

Captain Frederick Marryat was a British Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836), for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as Marryat's Code.

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