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Buccaneers and privateers : the story of the English sea rover, 1675-1725 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frohock, Richard, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Pirates in literature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Pirates > History > 17th century.
Pirates > History > 18th century.
Piracy > History > 17th century.
Piracy > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The word and the grand pirate, George Cusack
  • "The usual atrocities": narrating Henry Morgan's raid on Panama City
  • Exquemelin in England: the literary transformation of Henry Morgan
  • Captain Bartholomew Sharp and the "sacred hunger for gold"
  • Reconsidering William Dampier's vision
  • Consummate privateers: Edward Cooke and Woodes Rogers
  • the return of the buccaneer in the voyage narratives of Shelvocke and Betagh.