The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
Barry Clifford
The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
Barry Clifford
Descripción
On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.
Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'Estrées, The Lost Fleet portrays a dark age, when the outcasts of European society formed a democracy of buccaneers, settling on a string of islands off the African coast. From there, the pirates haunted the world's oceans, wreaking havoc on the settlements along the Spanish mainland and -- often enlisted by French and English governments -- sacking ships, ports, and coastal towns.
More than three hundred years later, writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford follows the pirates' destructive wake back to Venezuela. With the help of a lost map, drawn by the captain of the lost French fleet, Clifford locates the site of the disaster and wreckage of the once-mighty armada.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 287 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Harper Perennial |
Fecha de Publicación | 2003-10-21 |
Dimensiones | 7.96" x 5.36" x 0.73" pulgadas |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | Si |
Temas | Siglo 17, Siglo 19, América Latina |
Acerca del Autor
Clifford, Barry
Barry Clifford is an undersea explorer who discovered and excavated the Whydah, the first pirate shipwreck ever authenticated, off the coast of Cape Cod. He established the Expedition Whydah Sea Lab and Learning Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he also owns and operates a pirate museum.
Garantía & Otros
Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
Peso: | 0.263 kg |
SKU: | 9780060957797 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 29/10/23 |
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