Pirate Hunter: the Life of Captain Woodes Rogers

Thomas Graham (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2009
Pen & Sword Maritime (Verlag)
978-1-84415-808-9 (ISBN)

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On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission was to attack, plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could. And, as Graham Thomas shows in this tense and exciting narrative, after a series of pursuits and sea battles he returned laden with booty and with a reputation as one of the most audacious and shrewd fighting captains of the age. He was then appointed governor of the Bahamas by George I with the task of suppressing the pirates who roamed this corner of the Caribbean and preyed on its shipping. He was equally successful as a privateer and pirate-hunter in an age when brutality and ruthlessness were the law of the sea.

Graham A Thomas is an author and a historian.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2009
Zusatzinfo	20 Illustrations, 8 pages of plates
Verlagsort	South Yorkshire
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-84415-808-X / 184415808X
ISBN-13	978-1-84415-808-9 / 9781844158089
Zustand	Neuware