Author: John Christopher Fine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461748844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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This is a story about the lust for gold and treasure," Fine writes. In the 1600s and 1700s, Spain dominated the oceans with its fleet of galleons. Coming to the New World, these ships filled their holds with gold and silver and treasures beyond imagining. The seaway between Spain and the New World was dubbed The Golden Highway. On their journeys back across the seas, many were wrecked on reefs or destroyed by hurricanes. The watery depths now hold their treasures. Today, treasure divers seek their fortunes by attempting--sometimes successfully, sometimes fatally--to retrieve these hordes of riches. In Treasures of the Spanish Main, readers relive each voyage of long ago as well as witness the modern wreck diver's efforts to extract their secrets. Included are: The 1622 fleet * The Concepcion * The Maravillas * The Shipwreck off Jupiter Beach * The San Jose * the 1715 Fleet * and the 1733 Fleet The voyages of centuries ago come alive with Fine's excellent historical detail. Readers will experience the wild storms and the results of unfortunate choices made by long-ago sailors. The eccentric treasure hunters of today, along with those of the past, create a mosaic of suspense and drama on the high seas. A must for everyone interested in pirates, treasure, sailing, history, or just plain fun.
Author: Hamilton Cochran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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An account of the Spanish, Dutch, french, British, and American buccaneers who roamed the Spanished Main during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author: Sauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521088480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Carl O. Sauer uses contemporary sources to place the history of the early Spanish Main in a fresh context.
Author: Benerson Little
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612343619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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In 1674, it is three years since Henry Morgan’s pirates sacked Panama. England is now at peace with Spain, and soon France, Holland, and Spain will briefly be at peace among themselves. But soon buccaneers and their French counterparts, the filibusters, will seize the opportunity of material gain presented by the far-flung and failing Spanish Empire. And Spain will produce its own notorious pirates, whose depredations against the English and French will become legend. These men of opportunistic calculation and desperate courage live in a wilder, larger, and richer time and place than any other frontier in modern history—the Spanish Main. Unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, unabashedly, they will take to the peaceful seas for riches by force of arms. The world will witness piracy on a grand scale. While Benerson Little’s previous work showed brilliantly how pirates actually plied their trade, The Buccaneer’s Realm focuses on their cultural and physical environments. It describes not merely their deeds but their world—the New World of the Spanish Main and its many peoples, freedoms, dangers, and exploits that are the foundation of the Americas. A detailed and lively description of pirate life, it will especially appeal to readers with an interest in maritime, naval, military, and colonial history, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and armchair adventurers.
Author: Albert Marrin
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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An account of the life and times of the English buccaneer, Henry Morgan, from his birth in Wales through his daring exploits in the Spanish Main to his later years in Jamaica.
Author: G. A. Henty
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486116123
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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DIVAdventure on the high seas as seen through the eyes of young Ned Hearne, who experiences a harsh seafaring life, visits strange lands, and witnesses the destruction of the Spanish Armada. /div
Author: Craig S. Chapman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640124918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533
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Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea venture to seize control of the Spanish West Indies that ended in ghastly failure. Thirty-four years before the Battles of Lexington and Concord, a significant force of American soldiers deployed overseas for the first time in history. Colonial volunteers, 4,000 strong, joined 9,000 British soldiers and 15,000 British sailors in a bold amphibious campaign against the key port of Cartagena de Indias. From its first chapter, Disaster on the Spanish Main reveals a virtually unknown adventure, engrosses with the escalating conflict, and leaves the reader with an appreciation for the struggles and sacrifices of the 13,000 soldiers, sailors, and marines who died trying to conquer part of Spain's New World empire. Disaster on the Spanish Main breaks new ground on the West Indies expedition in style, scope, and perspective and uncovers the largely untold American side of the story.
Author: Angus Konstam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472833791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers. Though her crew handed her over to the Spanish, Hermione was subsequently recaptured in a daring raid on a Caribbean port two years later. Drawing on letters, reports, ship's logs, and memoirs of the period, as well as previously unpublished Spanish sources, Angus Konstam intertwines extensive research with a fast-paced but balanced account of the mutiny and its consequences.
Author: T. L. Armstrong
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781090677839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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A Master on the Spanish Main is the authorized biography of Burt D. Webber, Jr., a treasure salvor who has recovered millions of dollars in artifacts and trove from numerous shipwrecks in the Caribbean over a period of fifty years. Celebrated in 1978 for his discovery of the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion at Silver Shoals, he has a number of other salvage projects to his credit including the discovery of the Jesus of Nazareth, the N. S. Begona and more than thirty other lesser-known vessels. As an expatriate, living in the Dominican Republic, Burt Webber has lead an exceptional life in several venues, primarily as a successful salvor of course, but his close associations with government officials in the Dominican Republic have provided him with other opportunities for adventure, unseen and previously undisclosed. Now, in his seventh decade, he can safely elaborate on those exploits, some of which were favors performed in the interest of clients who could rely upon his wide connections in the corporate world, or the shadowy dictatorships of Central America.387 Pages... 175 Photos... 8 Maps... 7 Illustrations... Footnotes... Indexed.The author, T. L. Armstrong, continues to pursue treasure salvage on the 1715 Plate Fleet along Florida's Treasure Coast and, as a young man, worked as a diver for Real Eight, Treasure Salvors, Doubloon Salvage, New Channel Historical Survey Group, Pirate Village, and a number of other more recent contractors, coupled with experience as a commercial diver in the offshore oil field. He has coauthored several other books on sunken treasure salvage including; West of the Bull; A Hundred Giants: New Discoveries; and The Rainbow Chaser's Tricentennial Yearbook.
Author: Lawrence Philip
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781685153663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Born blind in the 17th century, a young boy named William endures tremendous physical and mental challenges. In order to escape a broken home and his tragic life, he sails half way around the world from London to the West Indies. Upon arriving in Barbados, William finds love followed by heartbreak. In an act of defiance and in order to give his children a better life, William vows to become the greatest pirate the world has ever seen. However, in order to do so, he will need to recover the Jewel of the Spanish Main. But can he find the treasure and keep it out of the wicked hands of those who seek it for their own nefarious plots? A wildly adventurous page-turner, One Eyed Willy will keep you in swashbuckling suspense until the very end.
