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The Pirates of Panama
Alexandre O. Exquemelin
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This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America was soon translated into the principal European languages.
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America was soon translated into the principal European languages.
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Interesting! Exquemelin offers a really revealing contemporary history of the buccaneers. It's totally engrossing, horrifying, and sometimes even funny. It digresses almost immediately into anecdotes about plants and wildlife, but I love those narrow glimpses of life in the Caribbean. I love that I
The publisher was sued by Captain Henry Morgan (Yes, THAT Captain Morgan) for his portrayal in this book.
Looking out of the portals of El Moro @ viejo San Juan whispers of fortunes and empires. The books adds fact to the popular fables. Fills in some of the blanks of history.
Repetitive with the looting and pillaging, and peppered with lengthy descriptions of new world fauna and fruit. But as far as first-hand accounts of piracy in its golden age, this is one of the oldest and best.
Esta pequeña joya cuenta las peripecias de un francés que fue al Caribe a traficar con esclavos en el siglo XVII y acabó siendo esclavo de los piratas de la zona, para luego acabar convirtiéndose en cirujano de los mismos piratas.
La obra fue publicada en Holanda y traducida del flamenco al castell
Hinsichtlich der Geschichte der Piraterie sehr interessant. Es werden einige berühmte Namen genannt wie Captain Henry Morgan (ich frage mich warum nach einer derart brutalen, menschenverachtenden Person eine Rumsorte bzw. überhaupt etwas benannt wurde). Mir war vorher nicht bewusst, dass ganze Städt
Very dry reading. While I tried to get through it, I ended up stopping at 47%.
Disturbing non fiction account of the lives of pirates in the Carribean, including Henry Morgan's sacking of Panama. Coupled with Marcus Reddiker's The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Peter Leeson's the Invisible Hook, and if you can ignore the brutality of it all, it's a fascinating look at the fou