{"product_id":"spanish-gold-captain-woodes-rogers-and-the-pirates-of-the-caribbean","title":"David Cordingly: Spanish Gold [2011] paperback","description":"Stories\u003cbr\u003eof individual pirates in the Caribbean, from Blackbeard to Calico Jack, have\u003cbr\u003ebeen the stuff of legend since the eighteenth century, but in Spanish Gold\u003cbr\u003epirate expert David Cordingly at last gives us the big picture in all its bold\u003cbr\u003eand ruthless truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCordingly shows how the attacks of the buccaneers on the treasure ports of the\u003cbr\u003eSpanish Main, and the sacking of Panama by Sir Henry Morgan in 1671, were the\u003cbr\u003eprologue to an explosion of piracy which led to the establishment of a pirate\u003cbr\u003ecolony at Nassau in the Bahamas. By 1717, so many ships had been raided and\u003cbr\u003etrade so badly disrupted that the merchants of London had to act. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe man they selected 'to drive the pirates from their lodgement' was Captain\u003cbr\u003eWoodes Rogers, himself a former privateer who had sailed round the world with\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Dampier the buccaneer explorer as his pilot. Woodes Rogers had captured\u003cbr\u003ethe fabled Manila treasure galleon, and rescued Alexander Selkirk from a remote\u003cbr\u003ePacific island - indeed, it was his account of Selkirk's ordeal that inspired\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWoodes Rogers' resolute actions as Governor of the Bahamas restored order to\u003cbr\u003ethe colony and proved a defining step in the campaign against the pirates,\u003cbr\u003einspiring the fight-back against men like Blackbeard, Calico Jack and\u003cbr\u003eBartholomew Roberts, all of whom died in dramatic circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlayed out against the background of fierce colonial rivalry between Britain,\u003cbr\u003eFrance and Spain, linked with the slave trade, the sugar plantations of the\u003cbr\u003eWest Indies, and the fabulously rich trade in gold and silver from the New\u003cbr\u003eWorld, the true story of the rise and fall of the pirates of the Caribbean\u003cbr\u003emakes for a tale even more interesting and surprising than the legends\u003cbr\u003ethemselves.","brand":"Cordingly, David","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44456297496866,"sku":"9781408822920","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/cordingly-david-david-cordingly-spanish-gold-2011-paperback-9781408822920-60084330103123.jpg?v=1731824583","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/spanish-gold-captain-woodes-rogers-and-the-pirates-of-the-caribbean","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}