Author: William Reney
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781018665092
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Author: Miles M. Evers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-03-31
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1009396366
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Author: Sarah Craze
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1783276703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period.The pirate attack on the British brig Morning Star, en route from Ceylon to London, near Ascension Island in 1828 was one of the most shocking episodes of piracy in the nineteenth century. Although the captain and many members of the crew were murdered by the pirates led by the notorious Benito de Soto, some survived, escaped and sailed the ship back to Britain. This book, based on extensive original research in Britain, Spain and Brazil, retells the story of the Morning Star, provides much new detail and corrects errors present in the many contemporary accounts of the attack. It sets the attack in the wider context of piracy in the period, and discusses many issues which the episode highlights: how pirates' careers began and developed; how they were pursued and tried, often with difficulty; what became of their treasure; how stories of the attack and of the survivors were sensationalised; how the women passengers on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.s on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.s on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.s on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.
Author: Tim Severin
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780330443135
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Author: Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia)
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 996
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Publisher: Iowa State Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 218
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Public Library of New South Wales. Reference Dept
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 324
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