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Title
Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Car...
ISBN
0747599637
EAN
9780747599630
Binding
Hardback
Date of Publication
20110404
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Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Car...
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Cordingly, David
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Book Title
Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
234mm
Author
David Cordingly
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
History
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
573g
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Stories of individual pirates in the Caribbean, from Blackbeard to Calico Jack, have been the stuff of legend since the eighteenth century, but in Spanish Gold pirate expert David Cordingly at last gives us the big picture in all its bold and ruthless truth. Cordingly shows how the attacks of the buccaneers on the treasure ports of the Spanish Main, and the sacking of Panama by Sir Henry Morgan in 1671, were the prologue to an explosion of piracy which led to the establishment of a pirate colony at Nassau in the Bahamas. By 1717, so many ships had been raided and trade so badly disrupted that the merchants of London had to act. The man they selected 'to drive the pirates from their lodgement' was Captain Woodes Rogers, himself a former privateer who had sailed round the world with William Dampier the buccaneer explorer as his pilot. Woodes Rogers had captured the fabled Manila treasure galleon, and rescued Alexander Selkirk from a remote Pacific island - indeed, it was his account of Selkirk's ordeal that inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Woodes Rogers' resolute actions as Governor of the Bahamas restored order to the colony and proved a defining step in the campaign against the pirates, inspiring the fight-back against men like Blackbeard, Calico Jack and Bartholomew Roberts, all of whom died in dramatic circumstances. Played out against the background of fierce colonial rivalry between Britain, France and Spain, linked with the slave trade, the sugar plantations of the West Indies, and the fabulously rich trade in gold and silver from the New World, the true story of the rise and fall of the pirates of the Caribbean makes for a tale even more interesting and surprising than the legends themselves.

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Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9780747599630
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Book Title
Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean
Author
David Cordingly
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
573g

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David Cordingly
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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