The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
by Barry Clifford
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On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy. Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'EstrÉes, The Lost Fleet portrays a dark age, when the outcasts of European society formed a democracy of buccaneers, settling on a string of islands off the African coast. From there, The show more pirates haunted the world's oceans, wreaking havoc on the settlements along the Spanish mainland and -- often enlisted by French and English governments -- sacking ships, ports, and coastal towns. More than three hundred years later, writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford follows the pirates' destructive wake back to Venezuela. With the help of a lost map, drawn by the captain of the lost French fleet, Clifford locates the site of the disaster and wreckage of the once-mighty armada. show lessTags
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Barry Clifford likes to scuba dive and this exploration of a group of wrecks dating from late buccaneer history 1670's to 1690, is his way of making some money from the situation. I did not find the narrative captivating, but it is useful as a snap shot of the techniques at the turn of the millennium.
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Barry Clifford is the author of Expedition Whydah, and his undersea explorations have been the subject of numerous documentaries by such organizations as the BBC, the National Geographic Society, PBS, and Discovery Communications. Founder of the Expedition Whydah Sea Lab and Learning Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, he continues to lead show more expeditions throughout the world show less
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- Original publication date
- 2002
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to my father, Robert F. Clifford Jr.
- First words
- A Squadron of stout Ships...
- A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, William Dampier
MAY 11, 1678
ONE HUNDRED MILES NORTH OF THE VENEZUELAN COAST
They came from the east, running before the st... (show all)eady trade winds that blew along Venezuela's north coast and the islands of the Netherlands Antilles. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)May the coral be their tombstone.
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