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An exciting addition to the Horrible Histories series, these titles will tackle all the hot historical topics in a new full-colour format with durable cover. Beginning with the perennial favourie Pirates, they're all the Horrible History a reader needs in one handy little handbook Terry Deary reveals the terrible truth behind the lousy pirate legends and lies so forget the brave heroes swinging from masts and the handsome young men sailing the seven seas for this is histoy as it's most horrible! Readers can decide who was the baddest of the bunch in the top ten of putrid pirates, discover why the women pirates were just as wicked as the men and learn to talk the patter of a Pirate. Plus there are foul facts on the ships they sailed, the punishments they suffered and the rules they lived by. Now the nasty bits are at your fingertips!
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
all the gore and more!'
Terry Deary has turned learning into real enjoyment, and this history book series is no exception.
'Want to know:-
How to talk the patter of a pirate?
The disgusting details of death by a thousand cuts?
Which potty pirate hacked off his own ears and made his enemy eat them?'
Durable and vividly illustrated cover opens to 94 high quality pages, split over handy sized chapters:-
Introduction
Lousy legends and lies
Nasty names
Top ten putrid pirates
Perilous pirate timeline
Lousy loot
Wicked weapons
Terrible tactics
Wicked women pirates
Cut-throat cruelties
Rotten rules
Pirate ships
Pirate losers
Talk like a pirate
Fly the flags
Foul facts
Pirate punishments
Dire deaths
Epilogue
'Interesting Index' - Hang on! This isn't one of your boring old indexes. This is a horrible index. It's the only index in the world where you will find `vomiting cows', `mopping-up brains', pickled heads' and all the other things you really HAVE to know if you want to be a 'horrible historian. Read it and creep.'
A colourful handbook, written in a variety of texts, packed full of information, e.g. :-
'The pirate flag was often called the `Jolly Roger' - that is from the French `jolie rouge', or `pretty red'. The first pirate flags were red. The other name for the pirate flag was `Captain Death'............'
Look out for the new title, too, - Horrible History Handbooks - 'KNIGHTS', also by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.
'History has never been so horrible!'
Terry Deary has turned learning into real enjoyment, and this history book series is no exception.
'Want to know:-
How to talk the patter of a pirate?
The disgusting details of death by a thousand cuts?
Which potty pirate hacked off his own ears and made his enemy eat them?'
Durable and vividly illustrated cover opens to 94 high quality pages, split over handy sized chapters:-
Introduction
Lousy legends and lies
Nasty names
Top ten putrid pirates
Perilous pirate timeline
Lousy loot
Wicked weapons
Terrible tactics
Wicked women pirates
Cut-throat cruelties
Rotten rules
Pirate ships
Pirate losers
Talk like a pirate
Fly the flags
Foul facts
Pirate punishments
Dire deaths
Epilogue
'Interesting Index' - Hang on! This isn't one of your boring old indexes. This is a horrible index. It's the only index in the world where you will find `vomiting cows', `mopping-up brains', pickled heads' and all the other things you really HAVE to know if you want to be a 'horrible historian. Read it and creep.'
A colourful handbook, written in a variety of texts, packed full of information, e.g. :-
'The pirate flag was often called the `Jolly Roger' - that is from the French `jolie rouge', or `pretty red'. The first pirate flags were red. The other name for the pirate flag was `Captain Death'............'
Look out for the new title, too, - Horrible History Handbooks - 'KNIGHTS', also by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.
'History has never been so horrible!'
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought the Pirates Horrible Histories for my 8 year-old son who was studying pirates as a topic at school and just has a natural penchant for history, especially when it is retold in this way. I now know it off by heart - not because I've read it but because my son find it so hilarious and astounding that he reads me out every fact and every joke, sometime more than once. Essentially though, he now has a truly comprehensive knowledge of the subject and has exploded many of the pirate myths that abound about parrots etc. Meanwhile he has had a jolly good laugh doing it. He has taken the book into school and I have visions of him regaling both his class and his class teacher with his discoveries - whether they like it or not.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With the summer holidays not too far away, this book could at least fill one otherwise "what shall we do" day.
Young children seem to have an absolute fasination about pirates - and not just because of Jack Sparrow et. al. This book hits the spot exactly and would easily fill a wet wednesday afternoon. It's blood thirsty, but not scary. It contains a wealth of information about a real pirates life. Above all it encourages kids to ask all sorts of questions - as an adult, most of which I had to make up. It doesn't lead to sleepless nights, but in my experience to demands for pirate gear and costumes - from both boys and girls.
The great thing is that if your kids really get into it, for very little money on Amazon you can buy complete pirate fancy dress for very little cash. I had terrible trouble removing it from my son after 2 weeks of solid wear. By which time he really, really smelt like a pirate. PPS Also on Amazon there is a great site that sells inflatable parrotts.......Pirate Boys fancy Dress Costume age 6-8 and Inflatable Parrot on Shoulder - Fancy Dress Costume Accessories
PPS if you have two budding pirates you may want to avoid cutlasses.....
Young children seem to have an absolute fasination about pirates - and not just because of Jack Sparrow et. al. This book hits the spot exactly and would easily fill a wet wednesday afternoon. It's blood thirsty, but not scary. It contains a wealth of information about a real pirates life. Above all it encourages kids to ask all sorts of questions - as an adult, most of which I had to make up. It doesn't lead to sleepless nights, but in my experience to demands for pirate gear and costumes - from both boys and girls.
The great thing is that if your kids really get into it, for very little money on Amazon you can buy complete pirate fancy dress for very little cash. I had terrible trouble removing it from my son after 2 weeks of solid wear. By which time he really, really smelt like a pirate. PPS Also on Amazon there is a great site that sells inflatable parrotts.......Pirate Boys fancy Dress Costume age 6-8 and Inflatable Parrot on Shoulder - Fancy Dress Costume Accessories
PPS if you have two budding pirates you may want to avoid cutlasses.....
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excellent book
I bought this for my grandson who loves Horrible Histories to add to his collection. He loves it and would recommend it to others.
Published 1 month ago by Brandy
Aaargh, me hearties
Another great Horrible Histories book. My daughter (9) loves them, as do the wife and I. The TV series is good too. Read more
Published 18 months ago by MancMan
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