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Derived from firsthand accounts, newspapers, journals, letters, and telegrams, this daunting compilation divulges authentic piracy stories from the 19th and 20th centuries. Part history, part true crime, this fascinating collection highlights the raids that took place in an area famous for harboring pirates: the China Seas. This informative and stirring narrative will appeal to shipping and maritime history buffs as well as those interested in thrillers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- FOREWORD
- COMPILERāS NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- A SHORT HISTORY OF PIRACY ON THE CHINA SEAS
- THE TERRIBLE LADRONES
- AN ADVENTURE WITH CHINESE PIRATES
- THE SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY BY THE ROYAL NAVY
- TWELVE DAYS AMONG THE PIRATES
- BREAKING UP OF THE CHINESE PIRATESā STRONGHOLD AT KULAN
- COMBINED NAVAL FORCES H.M.S. RATTLER AND U.S.N. POWHATAN ENCOUNTER PIRATES
- ELI BOGGSā TRIAL FOR MURDER AND PIRACY
- PIRACY AND MURDER ON BOARD THE NORTH STAR
- A DESPERATE PIRATICAL ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE THE IRON PRINCE
- ANGLICAN BISHOP AT WAR WITH WILD BORNEO PIRATES
- CRUISING AFTER PIRATES IN CHINESE WATERS
- A DARING ATTACK ON A BRITISH BARQUE
- STEAMER NAMOA ATTACKED; CHINESE PIRATES ARRESTED AND EXECUTED
- A EUROPEAN SMUGGLER BESET BY PIRATES
- WORLD NEWSPAPERS DENOUNCE RENEWED PIRACY
- THE TUNGCHOW PIRACY
- THE CASE OF THE S.S. SUNNING
- A TRYING TIME UNDER BANDITSā PISTOLS
- A SUBMARINE PATROL IN PIRATE WATERS
- ON BOARD A PIRATE JUNK WITH THE QUEEN OF THE MACAO PIRATES
- AN EPIC FIGHT WITH PIRATES ON BOARD S.S. HAICHING
- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PIRATE
- NORWEGIAN STEAMER SEIZED AT MIRS BAY
- THE SECOND S.S. TUNGCHOW PIRACY
- GLOSSARY
- CONVERSION TABLE