What is a pirate? -- Becoming a pirate -- Pirate or privateer? -- The greatest act of piracy -- Blackbeard -- Women pirates -- Pirates aground.
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Offers a history of piracy, from ancient times through the Renaissance 'privateers' such as Drake, with their Letters of Marque (an early example of State-sponsored terrorism), to the real and flourishing threat of contemporary pirates that patrol the less well-regulated shipping lanes of the world.