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

Categorie	Schepen & Scheepvaart
Boeknummer	#374780-XB45
Titel	The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
Auteur	Clifford, Barry & Kenneth Kinkor
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Harper Paperbacks
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0060957794
ISBN13	9780060957797
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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'EstrÉes, 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 pira... (Lees verder)tes' 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.
Pagina's	287
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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