The pirate king : the strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the Golden Age of piracy
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Central - Adult Nonfiction - NEW | 910.45 KINGS | Checked Out | May 22, 2024 |
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Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2024.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xix, 265 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished into thin air--and into legend. More ballads, plays, biographies and books were written about Avery's adventures than any other pirate. His contemporaries crowned him "the pirate king" for pulling off the richest heist in pirate history and escaping with his head intact (unlike Blackbeard and his infamous Flying Gang). Avery was now the most wanted criminal on earth. To the authorities, Avery was the enemy of all mankind. To the people he was a hero. Rumors swirled about his disappearance. The only certainty is that Henry Avery became a ghost. What happened to the notorious Avery has been pirate history's most baffling cold case for centuries. Now, in a remote archive, a coded letter written by "Avery the Pirate" himself, years after he disappeared, reveals a stunning truth. He was a pirate that came in from the cold . . . In The Pirate King, Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan brilliantly tie Avery to the shadowy lives of two other icons of the early 18th century, including Daniel Defoe, the world-famous novelist and--as few people know--a deep-cover spy with more than a hundred pseudonyms, and Archbishop Thomas Tenison, a Protestant with a hatred of Catholic France. Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan's The Pirate King brilliantly reveals the untold epic story of Henry Avery in all it's colorful glory--his exploits, his survival, his secret double life, and how he inspired the golden age of piracy."--,Amazon.com.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kingsley, S., & Cowan, R. (2024). The pirate king: the strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the Golden Age of piracy (First Pegasus books cloth edition.). Pegasus Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kingsley, Sean and Rex, Cowan. 2024. The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy. Pegasus Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kingsley, Sean and Rex, Cowan. The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy Pegasus Books, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kingsley, Sean,, and Rex Cowan. The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy First Pegasus books cloth edition., Pegasus Books, 2024.
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