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
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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
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One. Bible Overboard: The Word and the Grand Pirate, Captain George Cusack; Chapter Two. "The Usual Atrocities: "Narrating Henry Morgan's Raid on Panama City; Chapter Three. Exquemelin in England: The Literary Transformation of Henry Morgan; Chapter Four. Captain Bartholomew Sharp and the "Sacred Hunger of Gold"; Chapter Five. Reconsidering William Dampier's Colonial Vision; Chapter Six. Consummate Privateers Edward Cooke and Woodes Rogers
Chapter Seven. The Return of the Buccaneer in the Voyage Narratives of Shelvocke and BetaghBibliography; Index; About the Author
