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ISBN: 1473835224 1473836980 9781473836983 9781848848405 Year: 2014 Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Maritime,
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This is the story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. His name was Captain Sir Henry Morgan and, unlike his contemporaries, he was not hunted down and killed or captured by the authorities. Instead he was considered a hero in England and given a knighthood as well as being made governor of Jamaica. As Graham Thomas reveals in this fresh biography of this complex and intriguing character, Morgan was an exceptional military leader whose prime motivation was to amass as much wealth as he could by sacking and plundering settlements,
Buccaneers. --- Pirates --- Barbary corsairs --- Corsairs --- Freebooters --- Outlaws --- Buccaneers --- Filibusters (Buccaneers) --- Naval history --- Voyages and travels --- Morgan, Henry,
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ISBN: 1611685621 9781611685626 1306849381 9781306849388 9781611685152 161168515X Year: 2014 Publisher: Lebanon, NH
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Taken in a surprise attack near Nova Scotia in June 1722, Ashton was forced to sail across the Atlantic and back with a crew under the command of Edward Low, a man so vicious he tortured victims by slicing off an ear or nose and roasting them over a fire. "A greater monster," one colonial official wrote, "never infested the seas." Ashton barely survived the nine months he sailed with Low's crew -- he was nearly shot in the head at gunpoint, came close to drowning when a ship sank near the coast of Brazil, and was almost hanged for secretly plotting a revolt against the pirates. Like many forced men, Ashton thought constantly about escaping. In March of 1723, he saw his chance when Low's crew anchored at the secluded island of Roatan, at the western edge of the Caribbean. Ashton fled into the thick, overgrown woods and, for more than a year, had to claw out a living on the remote strip of land, completely alone and with practically nothing to sustain him. The opportunity to escape came so unexpectedly that Ashton ran off without a gun, a knife, or even a pair of shoes on his feet. Yet the resilient young castaway -- who has been called America's real-life Robinson Crusoe -- was able to find food, build a crude shelter, and even survive a debilitating fever brought on by the cool winter rains before he was rescued by a band of men sailing near the island.
Pirates. --- Caribbean & West Indies - General. --- Adventurers & Explorers. --- Modern - 18th Century. --- History - General History. --- Cloth or Hardcover. --- Pirates --- Barbary corsairs --- Corsairs --- Freebooters --- Outlaws --- Buccaneers --- History --- Ashton, Philip, --- Ashton, Phil. --- 1700 - 1799 --- Honduras --- Roatán (Honduras) --- Ruatan (Honduras) --- Coxin Hole (Honduras) --- Coxen Hole (Honduras) --- Coxen's Hole (Honduras) --- Port Medina (Honduras) --- Port McDonald (Honduras)
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ISBN: 9781929280803 9781929280810 9781929280827 Year: 2014 Publisher: Ann Arbor Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan
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"Lords of the Sea revises our understanding of the epochal political, economic, and cultural transformations of Japan's late medieval period (1300-1600) by shifting the conventional land-based analytical framework to one centered on the perspectives of seafarers usually dismissed as 'pirates'"--Provided by publisher.
Pirates --- Seafaring life --- Social change --- Violence --- J4000.50 --- J4476 --- J4500 --- J4240 --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Sailors' life --- Sea life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Voyages and travels --- Barbary corsairs --- Corsairs --- Freebooters --- Outlaws --- Buccaneers --- History --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Muromachi, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods (1392-1615) --- Japan: Economy and industry -- transportation and infrastructure -- air --- Japan: Economy and industry -- commerce and trade --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- criminology --- Murakami family. --- Japan --- Inland Sea (Japan) --- Seto-naikai (Japan) --- Seto uchi (Japan) --- Setonaikai (Japan) --- History. --- History, Naval --- Commerce --- History of Asia --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599
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