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Clifford: The Lost Fleet - The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy

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Clifford: The Lost Fleet - The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
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Clifford, Barry. THE LOST FLEET - THE DISCOVERY OF A SUNKEN ARMADA FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY. William Morrow, New York. 2002. 8vo. xii, (2), 287, (3) pages. original black over red boards, lettered in silver, jacket. Notes. B&w photos and illustrations throughout. English text. The David Baker Library. Fine. 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'Estrees, 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 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. Lot weight: 1 lbs 5oz. Subject(s): Sunken Treasure.