Buried Treasure - A Pirate Miscellany

Buried Treasure is a light-hearted look at some of the most feared men and women who sailed the seas. The book lifts the lid or 'blows the gaff' on pirate lore and sayings, setting the record straight on the lives and ways of pirates, and revealing the meanings behind, and uses of, common maritime sayings.

About the author

Robert Blyth is Senior Curator of World and Maritime History at Royal Museums Greenwich. A co-curator of the Pirates exhibition, he often talks like a pirate but has never knowingly committ ed piracy.

Summary

Buried Treasure is a light-hearted look at some of the most feared men and women who sailed the seas. The book lifts the lid or 'blows the gaff' on pirate lore and sayings, setting the record straight on the lives and ways of pirates, and revealing the meanings behind, and uses of, common maritime sayings.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Blyth, Blyth Robert
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.07.2025
• EAN: 9781739154288
• ISBN: 978-1-7391542-8-8
• Illustrations: approx. 90
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; REFERENCE / Quotations, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, maritime history, Reference works, Dictionaries Of Quotations, Quotations, proverbs and sayings, Miscellanies and compendia