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Empire of blue water : Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the catastrophe that ended the oulaws' bloody reign / Stephan Talty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talty, Stephan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pirates--Caribbean Area--History--17th century.
- Pirates.
- History.
- Caribbean Area--History--To 1810.
- Caribbean Area.
- Morgan, Henry, 1635?-1688.
- Morgan, Henry.
- Physical Description:
- 332 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2007]
- Summary:
- Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue, and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean, who in the 17th century challenged the greatest military power on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees.
- Contents:
- Introduction : The lost city
- "I offer a new world"
- The tomb at the Escorial
- Morgan
- Into the past
- Sodom
- The art of cruelty
- Portobelo
- Rich and wicked
- An amateur English theatrical
- Black clouds to the east
- The isthmus
- City of fire
- Aftermath
- Apocalypse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0307236609
- 9780307236609
- OCLC:
- 68694169
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