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Packed with intriguing historical detail combined with witty illustrations, this guide to life on the high seas reveals the true nature of piracy.
The ultimate guide for the novice knight, covering everything from sieges to swordplay, feasts to fights and The Crusades to courtly love. Written in a lively, humorous and engaging style and packed with informative historical detail, this is a fun way for children to understand medieval history. With cartoon illustrations, quizzes and handy checklists to bring the period of medieval knights vividly to life. Includes internet links to websites with quizzes, video clips and online activities via the Usborne Quicklinks website.
Whizzing cannonballs, howling storms, rare diseases... being a pirate isn’t all fun and games. Young landlubbers can become the fiercest of pirates by finding out how to keep their ship in tip-top shape, the best way to settle an argument with a shipmate and how to survive a storm at sea. A humorous guide to life on the high seas packed with intriguing historical detail that no self-respecting sea-dog should leave port without.