Richard Frohock

Buccaneers and Privateers

The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675-1725

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes a fresh look at English buccaneering and privateering literature from the Golden Age of Piracy and includes discussion of well-known figures such as Sir Henry Morgan as well as more obscure figures like Captain George Cusack.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781611493870
• ISBN-10: 1611493870
• Artikelnr.: 35211316

Autorenporträt

Richard Frohock

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Word and the Grand Pirate, George Cusack
Chapter 2: "The Usual Atrocities:" Narrating Henry Morgan's Raid on Panama
City
Chapter 3: Exquemelin in England: The Literary Transformation of Henry
Morgan
Chapter 4: Captain Bartholomew Sharp and the "Sacred Hunger for Gold"
Chapter 5: Reconsidering William Dampier's Vision
Chapter 6: Consummate Privateers: Edward Cooke and Woodes Rogers
Chapter 7: The Return of the Buccaneer in the Voyage Narratives of
Shelvocke and Betagh
Bibliography
Author Biography