Books > History > American history
|
Buy Now
The Buccaneers of America - A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,435
Discovery Miles 14 350
|
|
The Buccaneers of America - A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
John Esquemeling (better known as Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin) (c.
1645 1707) was a French barber-surgeon best remembered for this
classic account of the buccaneer pirates of the West Indies. After
travelling to Tortuga in 1666, Esquemeling joined the buccaneer
company of Henry Morgan, one of the most successful and notorious
privateers of the period. This volume, first published in English
in 1684, and now reissued from the 1893 reprint, contains
Esquemeling's detailed account of Morgan's dramatic exploits and
adventures. Covering the period 1668 1674, Esquemeling recounts in
fascinating detail Morgan's infamous attacks on Spanish-controlled
ports in Cuba, Hispaniola and Costa Rica, and vividly describes the
sack of the city of Panama and its aftermath in 1671. This work was
the first account published in English of the lives of the
buccaneers, and remains one of the most important sources for
descriptions of seventeenth-century piracy.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.