Seadogs & Criminals: Book One

Seadogs & Criminals: Book One

Author: Alex Fisher

Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing

Published: 2020-12-04

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1839754028

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Victorian London. Joseph Winter is a master of the criminal underworld, known around the backstreets as Trace - because he never leaves one . . . or so he thought. After a tip-off about a fabled treasure map leading to the infamous Lost Loot turns sour, Joseph is forced to consider his options and, along with a group of interesting strangers, takes a leap into the unknown. Through storms, seas, hardships and riddles, they sail, hunting for missing clues whilst learning about each other's hidden secrets – secrets Joseph is keen to unravel if they are to reach the treasure alive.


Seadogs and Criminals Book Two

Seadogs and Criminals Book Two

Author: Alex Fisher

Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 183975771X

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The adventure continues . . . After facing storms and starvation, riddles and murder, Joseph Winter and the hardy crew of Victoria thought they had conquered their fears. Nothing, however, could've prepared them for what lay ahead. The deceit, the desperation, betrayal and insanity; through jungles, caves, oceans and deserts – how could a secret thrive for so long? Despite everything, hope remained strong. After testing the limits of human spirit, they understood how golden their treasure could be and could see how their twisted fates were linked as one; to a loot lost to history... Scott's Trove.


The Sea Dogs

The Sea Dogs

Author: Ken Barnes

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1628575891

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In the seventeenth century, England's future is dependent upon the sea. Merchant adventurers and shipping companies seeking to expand international trade, find themselves constantly threatened by piracy on the high seas. In 1671, after twelve years of service, Lieutenant Martin Denbow decides to resign from the King's Navy. Leaving service on the same day are fellow officer Rodney Carteret and chief gunner Humility Flood, each to pursue his own ambition. The fortunes of Denbow and Carteret are affected by the beautiful but mysterious Helen Fitzwilliam, wife of a wealthy ship owner, while Flood becomes emotionally involved with Bess Dawlish, a feisty woman with a colourful past who lost her family and business in the Great Fire of 1666 and the Black Plague that followed. All experience the pleasures and the horrors of the period, as the action moves from London to the pirate-infested waters of the Caribbean ruled over by notorious buccaneer Henry Morgan, and on to an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Swordplay, romance, intrigue, betrayal, and sea battles abound in the sprawling saga The Sea Dogs, the first novel by Ken Barnes.


Popular Culture, Piracy, and Outlaw Pedagogy

Popular Culture, Piracy, and Outlaw Pedagogy

Author: Elizabeth Alford Pollock

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9462096139

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Popular Culture, Piracy, and Outlaw Pedagogy explores the relationship between power and resistance by critiquing the popular cultural image of the pirate represented in Pirates of the Caribbean. Of particular interest is the reliance on modernism’s binary good/evil, Sparrow/Jones, how the films’ distinguish the two concepts/characters via corruption, and what we may learn from this structure which I argue supports neoliberal ideologies of indifference towards the piratical Other. What became evident in my research is how the erasure of corruption via imperial and colonial codifications within seventeenth century systems of culture, class hierarchies, and language succeeded in its re-presentation of the pirate and members of a colonized India as corrupt individuals with empire emerging from the struggle as exempt from that corruption. This erasure is evidenced in Western portrayals of Somali pirates as corrupt Beings without any acknowledgement of transnational corporations’ role in provoking pirate resurgence in that region. This forces one to re-examine who the pirate is in this situation. Erasure is also evidenced in current interpretations of both Bush’s No Child Left Behind and Obama’s Race to the Top initiative. While NCLB created conditions through which corruption occurred, I demonstrate how Race to the Top erases that corruption from the institution of education by placing it solely into the hands of teachers, thus providing the institution a “free pass” to engage in any behavior it deems fit. What pirates teach us, then, are potential ways to thwart the erasure process by engaging a pedagogy of passion, purpose, radical love and loyalty to the people involved in the educational process.


Sea-Dogs All!

Sea-Dogs All!

Author: Tom Bevan

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13:

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'Sea Dogs All!' is an adventure-mystery novel revolving around the exploits of an individual referred to as 'the man in black', which we first met in half hidden by the thick trees, braving the fury of the storm. There was nothing of the fisher or forester about him; the pale, worn face and the tall, lean figure soberly clad in black betokened the monk or the scholar, but claimed no kinship with them that toiled in the woodlands or won a living from the dangerous sea. Leaning against a giant beech that rocked in wild rhythm with the storm, he watched the wind and tide at their work of devastation, an odd smile of satisfaction playing about the corners of his thin lips.


Landlubbers and Sea Dogs

Landlubbers and Sea Dogs

Author: Henrik Sornn-Friese

Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press DK

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9788763002462

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"This book provides an authoritative analysis of how increasing globalization in the maritime sector challenges the entwined shipping communities of traditional maritime nations. Through an empirical analysis of developments in labor mobility within the maritime sector in Denmark it shows that the shipping companies have been significant providers of competence to the national maritime skills base, but also that their current global factor sourcing choices threaten to dissolve this skills base. These findings have important implications regarding productivity, growth and competitiveness for policy makers and companies in the maritime domain."--Publisher's website


Elizabeth's Sea Dogs and their War Against Spain

Elizabeth's Sea Dogs and their War Against Spain

Author: Brian Best

Publisher: Frontline Books

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 152678288X

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This maritime history recounts the exploits of sixteenth century English privateers in conflict with the Spanish Empire. The Sea Dogs were seafaring merchants who originally traded mainly with Holland and France. During Queen Elizabeth’s reign, however, they began sailing further afield, spreading the reach of English exploration and plundering. At that time, England was a relatively impoverished country. But it soon found a new source of wealth in the Caribbean—a region that had been the colonial domain of wealthy Catholic Spain. The first man to trade with the Spanish Main was John Hawkins, who traveled to West Africa, captured the natives and transported them to the Caribbean. There he sold them to plantation owners in exchange for goods such as pearls, hides, and spices. His backers included the Queen herself, who encouraged the Sea Dogs to seek greater riches. This led to conflict with Spanish ships that would spark the Anglo-Spanish War. The main thorn in the Spanish side was Francis Drake. Despite efforts to kill or capture him, he continued to plunder the high seas, bringing back Spanish riches to England. This allowed Elizabeth to flourish. It was thanks in main to the privateering exploits of the Sea Dogs that England became so wealthy, paving the way for the Renaissance that followed.


Sandi and the Salty Sea Dogs

Sandi and the Salty Sea Dogs

Author: Monique Fallows

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2024-04-17

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0637004493

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Three dogs, two humans, one boat. And a whole ocean of friends! Sandi, with an i not a y, and her two pups Brownie and Lucy have THE BEST life. They get to travel with their human parents all across the waters of False Bay. Join these incredible dogs and read all about their WONDERFUL and EXCITING adventures on the ocean! You can also learn some fun facts about the animals the dogs meet. This book is IDEAL for any one who cares about the ocean and its animals.


Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture

Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture

Author: Roxie J. James

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-03-07

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 3030395855

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This book delves into humanity’s compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasure in watching people behave badly. This book offers an analysis of the varied and vexing definitions of hero, criminal, and criminal heroes both historically and culturally. This book also examines the global presence, gendered complications, and gentle juxtapositions in criminal hero figures such as: Robin Hood, Breaking Bad, American Gods, American Vandal, Kabir, Plunkett and Macleane, Martha Stewart, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s Eleven, and Let The Bullets Fly.