The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India

Fascinating adventure tale in the tradition of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.  Contains exciting non stop action for young teens and adults as well. A difficult book to put down.

A fascinating insight of this wonderful country pre-independence.

Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle….It is improbable that anyone else will ever bring his combination of interest and talent to the depiction of these old-time Pirates, any more than there could be a second Remington to paint the now extinct Indians and gun-fighters of the Great West.

What starts out as a pleasant family sea voyage takes a nightmarish turn in R.M. Ballantyne's The Pirate City. A prosperous Italian businessman and his sons are captured by a crew of pirates and are forcibly entered into servitude in the vast, roiling den of iniquity known as "Pirate City." They make the best of their horrific ordeal, but will they ever be able to escape and make it back home?

CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. OTAHEITE
CHAPTER II. THE BREAD-FRUIT
CHAPTER III. THE MUTINY
CHAPTER IV. THE OPEN-BOAT NAVIGATION
CHAPTER V. THE 'PANDORA'
CHAPTER VI. THE COURT-MARTIAL
CHAPTER VII. THE KING'S WARRANT
CHAPTER VIII. THE LAST OF THE MUTINEERS
CONCLUSION
ADDITIONAL NOTE
ENDNOTES

THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE  is one children's book of Francis Bret Harte  was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. And watercolour illustrations Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer.
This is a short story set in and around a mining camp in gold-rush California - a milieu that features in almost all of Bret Harte's work. Illustrated in this 1931 edition by the fabulous Kate Greenaway.

A classic of children's  book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors.
There is a story-book that will be occupied for children to read at bedtime or anytime. You can have this e-book for an incredibly lower price.

If you're hopelessly landlocked and pining for some high-seas adventure, dive into The Pirate Slaver by Harry Collingwood. Readers of all ages will relish this action-packed tale that pits a British warship against the ingenious and bloodthirsty pirates who troll the waters off the coast of Africa.