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Pirates! Scoundrels Who Shook the World

By: Scott McCormick
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Kevin T Colins, Gabriel Vaughan, Cary Hite, Khristine Hvam, Margaret Ying Drake, Eddy Lee, Feodor Chin
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Pirates! Scoundrels Who Shook the World

Exclusively on Audible, hilarious history for ages eight and up.

Hoist the mizzenmast and batten down those bloody hatches: Pirates! Scoundrels Who Shook the World tells the hilarious-but-true adventures of history’s most amazing pirates.

Learn about Stede Bonnet, the gentleman pirate, who left a life of luxury to become one of the most clueless pirates ever; Anne Bonney and Mary Read, two “openly female women” whose exploits turned them into media sensations; Jean and Pierre Lafitte, the Pirate Kings of New Orleans, who helped America win The War of 1812, and Ching Shih, the Chinese woman who rose from utter poverty to become the greatest pirate in history.

Pirates! has it all: swordfights, cannon blasts, parrot poop, daring acts of idiocy, bumbling British officers, and of course, plenty of booty. So buckle your swashes and swish your swords, Pirates! Scoundrels Who Shook the World is setting sail to the land of hilarity.

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About the Creator - Scott McCormick

About the Creator

Scott McCormick: When he’s not flustering emus or stymying mambas, Scott McCormick enjoys annoying his children until they tell their mother. He also writes. He writes all kinds of stuff. Some of it is good. He wrote the Mr. Pants series of graphic novels. Those were good. You should totally check them out. So are the books he writes for Audible, including Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World, and its sequel, Rivals 2. He’s also excited about his first novel, The Dragon Squisher, which is just as funny and squishy as it sounds. Scott lives on the western edge of the easternmost part of southern North Carolina, right smack in the middle of it all.

About the Performer

Sean Patrick Hopkins has narrated over 250 audiobooks written by Pulitzer & Nobel Prize-winning authors, traversing universes from Star Wars to Halo, and spanning centuries from Shakespeare to Back to the Future. His work has garnered AudioFile Earphones and Parents’ Choice Awards. The firstborn child of a preschool teacher and a Navy nurse, his path to audiobooks has taken him from studying neuroscience & speech pathology, to performing on film, television, video games, and stages across the country. When not in the booth, you can find him raising an amazing daughter alongside his talented wife, fellow narrator Patricia Santomasso.

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Not that I am out of words, the book is good in every definition. The humor in content, presentation and information all were top notch.

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All of Scott McCormick’s histories are a easy, fun way to get a bit of history. They often tempt me to learn a little more about the subjects on my own.

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Enjoy!

I love this series of books and the stories that they share!

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I love it! incredible narrating I also love the cast for kids wonder about pirates, but don’t like vivid. It’s the best book.

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Best in the series.

My kids enjoyed this one the most by far in the series. The voice acting is fantastic and funny. Truly enjoyable.

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