Treasure Island Resources

• Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. If it is good enough for Ian Chambers and Mike Wilder, it is good enough for us.
• Dr. Chambers' Treasure Island Questions
• Dr. Chambers' Treasure Island Questions (with Answers)
• Dr. Chambers' Treasure Island Summary of Main Characters

Basic things you Should Know about Pirates (Kid Intuition)

• Pirate captains do not make friends with each other. They will always fight.
• Pirates are too dumb not to go to sea.
• You do not want to be a pirate's prisoner.

Basic Things you Should Know about Pirates (Casual Books)

• Historical ports: Vera Cruz, Havana, Cartagena, ...
• The richest booty sails in convoys, with military escorts.
• Celebrity pirates: Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Henry Morgan, Black Bart, Anne Bonney, Jean Lafitte ...
• Fictional pirates: Long John Silver, Captain Jack Sparrow, Captain Hook, Dread Pirate Roberts

Basic Things you Should Know about Pirates (Historians)

• Global. ancient. phenomenon.
• Illyrians, Vikings, Barbary
• The Golden Age of Piracy (1650-1730) was tied interestingly to the Jacobite Uprisings (1688-1746).
• Pirates vs. Privateers, "legal" pirates until 1856. Letters of marque.
• Pirate democracy and relative egalitarianism. Captains and quartermasters. Mutiny.
• Wars and piracy. Governments have authorized, funded, or begged pirate aid
• Peace and piracy. The newly unemployed navy turns to piracy.
• Pirate retailers. For years, the best department store in New Orleans was Lafitte's...

Pirate Resources

• The Buccaneers of America by Alexander Exquemelin
• Charles Johnson (1724), A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, a copy on the website of Eastern North Carolina Digital Library (related @ Gutenberg)
• The Corsair by Lord Byron
• Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
• "The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan
• The Pirates Who's Who by Phillip Gosse