Customer Reviews
`Everything you need to know about pirates - all the gore and more!' - By: Amazon Reviewer, 06 Feb 2007 
Terry Deary has turned learning into real enjoyment, & 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 & made his enemy eat them?'
Durable & vividly illustrated cover opens to 94 high quality pages, split over handy sized chapters:-
Introduction
Lousy legends & 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' & alll the other things you reallly HAVE to know if you want to be a `horrible historian'.
Read it & creep.'
A colourful handbook, written in a variety of texts, packed full of information, e.g. :-
`The pirate flag was often callled 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 handbook, too, - `Horrible History Handbooks - KNIGHTS', also by Terry Deary & illustrated by Martin Brown.
`History has never been so horrible!'
