Buccaneers of America (Classics of Naval Literature) - Hardcover

Exquemelin, A. O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557500770 ISBN 13: 9781557500779

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1993

Synopsis

Alexander Exquemelin, whose probable French origins remain unclear, was most certainly on board the ship of the infamous pirate captain, Henry Morgan, during his raid on Panama City in 1671. His association with the buccaneers began around 1669, when he was sold from his indentured servitude with the French West India Company to a barber-surgeon, who taught him the trade. His subsequent years as a surgeon on board various pirate ships led to the publication of "The Buccaneers of America" in 1678. This shocking portrait of the Seventeenth century sea-rovers, since revealed to contain several errors and exaggerations, includes Exquemelin's sensationalized accounts of international criminals who performed inhuman acts of cruelty. The story, originally published in Dutch, was quickly translated into several languages. The original text has attained historical notoriety as an extraordinary source of information about the legendary pirates, despite Henry Morgan's claims of slander and libel against the publishers of the novel. They were later court ordered to revise future editions of the book.

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Synopsis:

CIP carries an extended title (which does not appear on the title page): ...a true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late upon the coast of the West Indies by the buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French.... The work was first published in Dutch in 1678; this reprint (with an introduction) is of the 1924 second

About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1557500770
• ISBN 13: 9781557500779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384