Ahoy, shipmate! Explore the lives of 10 real pirates and learn about life on the high seas, whilst using the magnifying glass – included inside the book's foil-accented cover – to spot more than 200 pirate-themed items in 16 eye-boggling illustrations.
Meet history's most notorious pirates as you follow Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny and more rogues on their real-life adventures in this book by award-winning author David Long.
As you spot, explore cutaways of ships and learn about navigation, survival at sea, the merchant trade and finding treasure. At the back, find a rogues gallery of even more pirates and dangerous individuals on the prowl in the era of sail ships and ocean travel, plus more things to spot, an answer key and a guide to talking like a pirate.
From David Long, the author behind Egypt Magnified, Romans Magnified, Castles Magnified and Ancient World Magnified, the intricate illustrations and fascinating facts in this seafaring adventure will inform and entertain the youngest landlubber for hours.
This is Book 1 in the Magnified Series. See all Magnified books here.
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Writer and historian David Long is the author of the acclaimed Animals' VC: For Gallantry and Devotion and more than twenty other non-fiction books on a wide range of historical subjects. Jet the Rescue Dog, the first of several titles for younger readers, was published by Faber in 2014. He lives in Suffolk and has two teenage sons.
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David Long writes for adults and children and specialises in history. As a journalist he has written for the Times, Sunday Times , and London Evening Standard as well as for magazines in Britain and abroad. He is an award-winning ghostwriter and one of his own books was voted Blue Peter Book of the Year 2017.
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