The Lost Fleet The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy

di Barry Clifford (Autore)

HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 2003

On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'Estrees, The Lost Fleet portrays a dark age, when the outcasts of European society formed a democracy of buccaneers, settling on a string of islands off the African coast. From there, the pirates haunted the world's oceans, wreaking havoc on the settlements along the Spanish mainland and -- often enlisted by French and English governments -- sacking ships, ports, and coastal towns.More than three hundred years later, writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford follows the pirates' destructive wake back to Venezuela. With the help of a lost map, drawn by the captain of the lost French fleet, Clifford locates the site of the disaster and wreckage of the once-mighty armada.

• Autore: Barry Clifford
• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Anno: 2003
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 204 x 148 mm
• Peso: 270 gr.
• EAN: 9780060957797

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