Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
by:
Stephan Talty (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307236609 (0307236609)
Publish date: April 24th 2007
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Right off the top you should be asking, "5 Stars for a book about pirates, Koivu?" Yeah well I have a thing for stories about randy seaman going after sweet sweet booty, what can I say? Talty's pen puts a nice flourish on history that's appreciated, but hardly necessary considering his colorful sour...
An entertaining history of the 17th century English pirates based out of Port Royal, Jamaica, focusing on the career of the Welsh privateer Henry Morgan.
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