Buccaneers and privateers
Subtitle: the story of the English sea rover, 1675-1725
By: Richard Frohock
Publisher: University Of Delaware Press; University of Delaware Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newark, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781611493870; 9781611493887
Subjects: Pirates in literature; English literature; Pirates; Piracy; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The word and the grand pirate, George Cusack; title: "The usual atrocities": narrating Henry Morgan's raid on Panama City; title: Exquemelin in England: the literary transformation of Henry Morgan; title: Captain Bartholomew Sharp and the "sacred hunger for gold"; title: Reconsidering William Dampier's vision; title: Consummate privateers: Edward Cooke and Woodes Rogers; title: the return of the buccaneer in the voyage narratives of Shelvocke and Betagh.