Pirate Pussycat

A playful pop-up book of purring pussycats!

A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a dizzyingly imaginative foray through world history, literature, and language itself.

Little Matey is a make-believe legend about a cat who is adopted by Blackbeard the Pirate to catch the rats on his ship, and who ends up living on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina. It is illustrated by the author. The story is based on historical fact, although no one knows if Blackbeard actually had a cat, or if its name was Little Matey. It is told from the cat's perspective. Ocracoke has been, for as long as anyone can remember, home to a large number of free-roaming feral cats. Where they originally came from is unknown, but the author imagines a scenario in which they came to the island on the ships of Blackbeard and another pirate. Little Matey and Grog, another pirate cat she meets at Ocracoke, are present when the battle at Teache's Hole takes place and Blackbeard is defeated. She and Grog stay on the island and begin a family--the supposed ancestors of the feral cats of Ocracoke today.

From comics master Peyo (The Smurfs, Benny Breakiron) comes Pussycat--a lovable, mischievous tuxedo cat who spends his time chasing after milk and snacks and framing other members of his family for his shenanigans. This cat isn't exactly the noble hunting type-- he'd rather play a game of kickball with the resident mouse than chase after him-- and most of the humor originates from his clever, yet often foolish ways of trying to get what he wants (e.g. milk and snacks). Originally published in Spirou magazine in France, this is a delightful collection of comics that can be enjoyed by all-ages.

Meet "Nice Kitty's" less-than-courageous crew and join in on a high-seas adventure with Captain Stumpy the Pirate Cat as he confronts his arch-rival, Fluff Bucket, with surprising results.

Over the last couple of decades, an ideological battle has raged over the political legacy and cultural symbolism of the “golden age” pirates who roamed the seas between the Caribbean Islands and the Indian Ocean from roughly 1690 to 1725. They are depicted as romanticized villains on the one hand and as genuine social rebels on the other. Life Under the Jolly Roger examines the political and cultural significance of these nomadic outlaws by relating historical accounts to a wide range of theoretical concepts—reaching from Marshall Sahlins and Pierre Clastres to Mao Zedong and Eric J. Hobsbawm via Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault. With daring theoretical speculation and passionate, respectful inquiry, Gabriel Kuhn skillfully contextualizes and analyzes the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and disability in golden age pirate communities, while also surveying the breathtaking array of pirates’ forms of organization, economy, and ethics. Life Under the Jolly Roger also provides an extensive catalog of scholarly references for the academic reader. Yet this delightful and engaging study is written in language that is wholly accessible for a wide audience. This expanded second edition includes two new prefaces and an appendix with interviews about contemporary piracy, the ongoing fascination with pirate imagery, and the thorny issue of colonial implications in the romanticization of pirates.

"From the book 'Pussy, king of the pirates' by Kathy Acker"--Title page verso.

Follows the adventures of Penelope the cat as she foils a band of pirates and finds a fabulous buried treasure.

Alicia has an adventurous side to her that was unacceptable in the 1700s, but this didn't stop her. Blessed with beauty and love of life, she met her handsome captain, Arnold. Their adventures and dreams expanded into five beautiful talented daughters. Their third daughter, Aurora, was blessed and cursed with both her parents love of life and thirst for the sea. Her story is shared here.

This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century.