Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Softcover

Pyle, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1456494120 ISBN 13: 9781456494124

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011

Synopsis

In HOWARD PYLE'S BOOK OF PIRATES the pirates, buccaneers, and marooners who once infested the Spanish Main, are cruel but picturesque sea wolves. They are remembered in part because of the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle. The book is a collection of stories and illustrations originally published in periodicals during his lifetime. Accounts of the deeds of pirates are told of Henry Morgan, l'Olonoise, Captain Avary, one of the first to use marooning of prisoners, Robert Kidd, Edward Teach, or "Blackbeard," Ned Low, William Brand, Captain Malyloe, Barnaby True, Tom Chist, Jack Ballister, Blueskin, John Scarfield, and Robertson Keitt as well as tales of buried treasure and the ruby of Kishmoor.

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About the Author

Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University). After 1900, he founded his own school of art and illustration, named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The scholar Henry C. Pitz later used the term Brandywine School for the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region, several of whom had studied with Pyle. Some of his more notable students were N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ethel Franklin Betts, Anna Whelan Betts, Harvey Dunn, Clyde O. DeLand, Philip R. Goodwin, Thornton Oakley, Violet Oakley, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Olive Rush, Allen Tupper True, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Arthur E. Becher, William James Aylward, and Jessie Willcox Smith. Pyle's home and studio in Wilmington, where he taught his students, is still standing and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His 1883 classic publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur. He is also well known for his illustrations of pirates, and is credited with creating what has become the modern stereotype of pirate dress. He published his first novel, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine. His novel Men of Iron was adapted as the movie The Black Shield of Falworth (1954). Pyle travelled to Florence, Italy in 1910 to study mural painting. He died there in 1911 of a sudden kidney infection (Bright's Disease).

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1456494120
• ISBN 13: 9781456494124
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344