Pirates: A General History Homewares Artist: Unknown

Artist: Unknown

this model ship is not a toy and is not suitable for children under 3 years of age

and those fascinated by 18th-century maritime achievement

When they received no reply the fleet bombarded Algiers in the most spectacular of several similar punitive actions of this period that finally broke the power of the 'Barbary pirates'

Date: circa 1890-1900

Pirates: A General History Homewares Artist: UnknownA facsimile edition of a classic source for the history of piracy, as used by Robert Louis Stevenson in the writing of Treasure Island, Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the best selling books of 1724 when it was first published.