Pirates in the Caribbean: Buccaneers, Privateers, Freebooters and Filibusters 1493-1720
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Rating | : | 4.18 (744 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0785815864 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
Language | : | English |
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Book by Apestegui, Cruz
"The Spanish Viewpoint" according to David Stapleton. Having read through a couple of score books on piracy, many of them mere knockoffs of Charles Johnson's A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates; you have to look at yet another book on piracy and almost yawn. Reading through the first chapter of this b. Pirates from the other side While a very good compendium of buccaneer tales from the days of derring-do, what makes this book unique (at least from an English-speaking perspective) is that it is an account of the pirates, buccaneers, etc from the Spanish viewpoint. Those of you who have read about the Caribbean pira