Pirate hunter of the Caribbean : the adventurous life of Captain Woodes Rogers

9780812980172

Random House Trade Paperback edition

x, 301 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 21 cm

"Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom as Spanish gold by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, and in the United States by Random House, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, in 2011"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-287) and index

Prologue
Raiding the South Seas
The sea captain
From Bristol to Cape Horn
A man clothed in goat-skins
The Manila galleons
The voyagers return
Sugar, slaves and sunken treasure
Governor of the Bahamas
Welcome to Nassau
Hanged on the waterfront
Blackbeard's last stand
Calico Jack and the female pirates
Great debts and bills
Death on the coast of Guinea
Back to the Bahamas
Epilogue

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