Today's book show on The Point was all about pirates.
Amy Vince sat in for Mindy Todd to talk books with
Peter Abrahams and Jill Erickson. Below you will find the books we had a chance to talk about, and a few extras that we did not have a chance to talk about. If you have a favorite book about pirates, let us know and we will add it to our list. Miss the show? Don't worry, you can listen tonight at 7:00 PM on
WCAI or listen online!
Peter's Picks
The Republic of Pirates: being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down by Colin Woodard
Under the Black Flag: the romance and the reality of life among the pirates by David Condingly
The Whydah: a pirate ship feared, wrecked, and found by Martin W. Sandler
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: the forgotten war that changed American history by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yeager
The Pirates of Somalia: inside their hidden world by Jay Bahadur
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian
No time for:
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Delusion by Peter Abrahams
Jill's Picks
Books of the Sea: an introduction to nautical literature by Charles Lee Lewis
Wondrous Strange: the Wyeth tradition: Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth
The Pirates of the New England Coast 1630 - 1730 by George Francis Dow and John Henry Edmonds
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller
Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eagar
Seafaring Women by Linda Grant De Pauw
The Golden Age of Piracy: the rise, fall, and enduring popularity of pirates edited by David Head
The Desert and the Sea: 977 days captive on the Somali pirate coast by Michael Scott Moore
No time for picture books:
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen, illustrated by David Shannon
Captain Jack and the Pirates by Peter Bently & Hlene Oxenbury
Swap by Steve Light
Listener Pick
Ireland's Pirate Queen: the true story of Grace O'Malley, 1530 - 1603 by Anne Chambers
