The Lure of Peru
Subtitle: maritime Intrusion into the South Sea, 1598-1701
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 1990
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780312040611
Subjects: Military - General; South American; Caribbean Area - History; Naval History - Modern; History - Military / War; 1548-1820; 17th century; Buccaneers; History; History, Naval; Peru; Pirates; South Pacific Ocean; Spain; History: American
Table of contents: title: viii
label: List of Maps; title: ix
label: Glossary; title: 1
label: Introduction; title: 9
label: 1. The arrival of the Dutch: Jacob Mahu and Olivier van Noort (1598-1601); title: 30
label: 2. The defeat of the Peruvian fleet at Cañete by Joris van Speilbergen (1614-17); title: 49
label: 3. Jacques l'Hermite, the Nassau fleet and the blockade of Callao (1623-26); title: 72
label: 4. The expedition of Hendrick Brouwer to Valdivia: a project for colonial settlement (1642-44); title: 86
label: 5. John Narborough and the mysterious don Carlos at Valdivia (1669-71); title: 103
label: 6. Sharp, Coxon, Watling and company: the first of the buccaneers (1679-82); title: 128
label: 7. English and French buccaneers: the second wave, Davis, Swan, Grogniet, Le Picard (16874-89); title: 167
label: 8. The end of an era and the onset of a new phase: the last buccaneers, John Strong, privateer, and the ***arrival of French traders; title: 185
label: Epilogue: the 18th century; title: 196
label: Sources - manuscripts and books; title: 199
label: Notes; title: 233
label: Index