Cast
of Characters
Captain
Pigleg
Captain Pigleg has a
ship called The Revenger. Some of his
characteristics are taken from a real pirate in
history, Captain Blackbeard, who used to set
fire to his hair with lighted tapers to make people so
scared of him that they would give up without a fight
if his band of pirates came over the horizon. Jack
Trelawny has taken this historical fact and changed it
around in his stories so that Pigleg's whole head ingites when he gets
angry.
Link:
Captain Blackbeard at National
Geographic
Some like the image of Captain
Pigleg above, whilst younger readers often prefer the
one below.
Book
cover picture: Louise
Hackman-Hexter
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