Born to be hanged the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the South Seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune
The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates-a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers-gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines,...
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2022.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Born to be hanged : |b the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the South Seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune / |c Keith Thomson. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Little, Brown and Company, |c 2022. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2022 | |
| 300 | |a ix, 371 pages : |b illustrations, map ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-356) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: The sacred hunger of gold. The princess -- The golden swordsman -- The gap -- Golden-cap -- The forlorn -- The second-largest city in the western hemisphere -- A natural pirate -- An easy canoe ride -- Castaways -- Surprizal -- The dragon -- The extreamest hazard of fire and sword -- Blood ran down the decks in whole streams -- Mutiny -- Part II: The South Seas. The muzzles of our guns -- Swallowed by the sea -- As valiant and courageous as any could be -- Snake-haired sisters -- The merry blades -- Water, water -- Ransom -- Eighty-five stout fellows -- Robinson Crusoe -- The very illustrious and royal city of Saint Mark of Arica -- The itch -- Part III: Straits. Expect to be shot to death -- The pyre -- Bloodletting -- A warm deck -- The horn -- Landfall -- The silver oar -- The sequel. | |
| 520 | |a The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates-a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers-gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become legends. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era-a story not given its full due until now. Inspired by the intrepid forays of pirate turned Jamaican governor Captain Henry Morgan-yes, that Captain Morgan-the company crosses Panama on foot, slashing its way through the Darien Isthmus, one of the thickest jungles on the planet, and liberating a native princess along the way. After reaching the South Sea, the buccaneers, primarily Englishmen, plunder the Spanish Main in a series of historic assaults, often prevailing against staggering odds and superior firepower. A collective shudder racks the western coastline of South America as the English pirates, waging a kind of proxy war against the Spaniards, gleefully undertake a brief reign over Pacific waters, marauding up and down the continent. With novelistic prose and a rip-roaring sense of adventure, Keith Thomson guides us through the pirates' legendary two-year odyssey. We witness the buccaneers evading Indigenous tribes, Spanish conquistadors, and sometimes even their own English countrymen, all with the ever-present threat of the gallows for anyone captured. By fusing contemporaneous accounts with intensive research and previously unknown primary sources, Born to Be Hanged offers a rollicking account of one of the most astonishing pirate expeditions of all time. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Piracy |z Pacific Coast (Latin America) |x History |y 17th century. | |
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