TY - BOOK ID - 78641262 TI - The buccaneer king : the story of Captain Henry Morgan PY - 2014 SN - 1473835224 1473836980 9781473836983 9781848848405 PB - Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Maritime, DB - UniCat KW - Buccaneers. KW - Pirates KW - Barbary corsairs KW - Corsairs KW - Freebooters KW - Outlaws KW - Buccaneers KW - Filibusters (Buccaneers) KW - Naval history KW - Voyages and travels KW - Morgan, Henry, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641262 AB - 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, ER -