Record Added: 7/20/2016 Setting  Sea or Islands Topic History: Sea, Ships, or P Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company ISBN B000SDVVWA Year 1969 Age Adult Pages 265 Description Green printed dustjacket
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There once was a mythical time when brave and dangerous pirates sailed the seas in search of both fortune and fame. In this time heroic villains rose to fame, figures like Captain Woodes Rogers, Captain William Kidd, Captain Avery, Sir Henry Morgan and others became household names. They were the famous anti-heroes of their time, much like rock stars today. There was also a historical period from roughly 1680 - 1730 when large numbers of Anglo-American mariners were engaged in piracy and privateering, often against Spanish or other targets of opportunity in the Atlantic Ocean.
A great challenge for modern historians is to separate fact from fiction, since the mythical time and the historical time of this Golden Age of Piracy are so intertwined in both historical sources and the collective consciousness of our culture.
This book discusses the lives of Morgan, Kidd, and Rogers, and shows how blurred the line was between pirate and privateer. Includes several black and white maps and illustrations. |
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Endpapers: Capture of a Spanish treasure ship off Peru, 1628; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. |
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