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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

READ THIS: The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook A Swashbuckler’s Guide from the Pirates of the Caribbean By Jason Heller

Do you think Peachy Deegan knows how to shiver her timbers? Well, she does now! Thanks to our pal Jack. Jack Sparrow, that is. She knows him now too and all of his fabulous pirate tips.   Want to know how to dress like a Pirate for halloween?  This book will tell you.  Want to know all of the tools of the trade?  They're here.  Learn every part of a ship!  Most of all, the witty banter of this book will leave you delightfully entertained.  This also makes a fabulous gift for everyone you know that would make a good pirate, and also a great conversation piece coffee table book.  Whom You Know Highly Recommends The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook.  Read it sitting by the beach!

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He’s the most popular pirate in motion picture history—and now The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook (Quirk Books; $18.95; May 3, 2011) offers his fans an insider’s guide to all the dirty tricks of the buccaneer’s trade! Complete with step-by-step instructions, helpful diagrams, and full-color photography from the Pirates of the Caribbean films, this nautical treasure trove arrrrrrrrrticulates such vital and colorful information as:

- How to Sail a Ship

- How to Survive Being Marooned

- How to Break a Curse

- How to Fight Six Angry Men in a Tavern

- How to Recruit a Crew

- How to Cope with Mermaids

- And much, much more!

Arriving just in time for Captain Jack’s long-awaited return in the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, this fiendishly adventurous handbook is essential reading for pirate lovers, Johnny Depp fans, and all-around rogues and rapscallions of all ages.

JASON HELLER is a longtime entertainment journalist for The A.V. Club and coauthor of its 2009 pop-culture bible Inventory. He lives in Denver, Colorado, and is currently writing a steampunk pirate novel.


The Captain Jack Sparrow Handbook:
A Swashbuckler’s Guide From the Pirates of the Caribbean
By Jason Heller
Published by Quirk Books, May 3, 2011
Hardcover, 5 ½ x 7 ½,, 176 pages, $18.95
ISBN 978-1-59474-504-1

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