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To help, here’s a free “Talk Like a Pirate” poster and dictionary to get you through the tough spots.
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Author Kathleen Krull and illustrator Kathryn Hewitt reveal that pirates hailed from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities, and that pirating wasn’t just a man’s world.To download your free Talk Like a Pirate poster, click one of the links below. Young pirates can pick up bits of history in “Lives of the Pirates,” a colorfully illustrated guide to history’s greatest pirates.
Like learning any new language, the key to speaking pirate might just be immersion.
With the power to muffle even the most educated comment until it sounds like an angry and incoherent “arrrgh,” a beard is a boon to any buccaneer. Whether you contemplate growing the real thing, or merely wearing a temporary prosthetic, “Beard” surely contains a style that will appeal to you. In “Beard,” a collection of portraits from the International Beard and Mustache Championships, photographer Matthew Rainwater captures facial hair’s amazing diversity of form. And as a fortuitous side-effect when it comes to pirating - eating enough jerky is sure to increase the size of your booty.Īs a final touch why not grow a beard? History is strewn with piratical beards: Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, tied smoking fuses in his impressive mane to intimidate enemies while Barbary corsair Khair ad Din was so recognized for his flowing red beard that his adversaries dubbed him Barbarossa. These activities would have been intimately familiar to history’s buccaneers and modern pirates will discover that nothing works as well as charcoal smoke to give your voice a rough and rasping quality. Tasting notes inserted into the narrative describe methods for cooking wild meat over a campfire and making jerky. The book “Meat Eater” captures author Steven Rinella’s life-long pursuit of wild game as a hunter, fisherman and trapper. These rough men were unscrupulous enough that unwary customers often turned into targets for looting. The first buccaneers hunted and then dried meat into jerky to sell to passing ships. The term buccaneer is now synonymous with pirate, but actually is derived from ‘buccan’ a native term from the Caribbean describing a grill for smoking meat. With the language mastered, modern corsairs-for-a-day can turn to subtler ways to put some extra buckle in their swash. And when your young buccaneer looks a bit poorly, Lincoln even includes a short and handy quiz to determine if she’s suffering from scurvy. In addition to brushing up on the lingo, Lincoln offers ideas for piratical crafts such as treasure maps, personalized pirate flags and a recipe for baking authentic hardtack - the rock-hard biscuit eaten by law-abiding sailors and pirates alike. Younger piratical aspirants can find this, and a wealth of other information, in “The Pirate’s Handbook” by Margarette Lincoln. Luckily, Ames Public Library is stuffed to the gunwales with everything you’ll need to prepare.Īny landlubber can “yaarrr” and “yo-ho-ho,” but a true pirate can declare he’d like to “take a caulk” when he could use a nap. 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and though it only just passed us by, it’s never too early to begin practicing for next year. September brings not only the return of tolerably cool weather and football season, but also the saltiest day of the year.