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| TITLE: |
Buccaneers of the Pacific / by George Wycherley. |
| AUTHOR: |
Wycherley, George. |
| PUBLISHED: |
Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1928. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
444 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Maps on lining-papers. |
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Notes Maps on lining-papers. Contents Who and why were the buccaneers?--The golden galleons and the silver fleets.--Sir Francis Drake, prince of buccaneers.--Drake in California and the western Pacific.--Thomas Cavendish, gentleman buccaneer.--Bloodthirsty Morgan and the sack of Panama.--Adventures of four captains: Sawkins, Sharp, Harris and Cook; the famous battle of Perico (Dampier's story begins)--Ambrose Cowley, so-called American pirate, and his miscellaneous companions (Dampier's story continued)--Further misadventures of the versatile Dampier and one of his mates.--Woodes Rogers, privateer of Queen Anne (the end of Dampier's story)--John Clipperton and his affairs with a marquis and a mandarin.--George Shelvocke, victim of the Jamaica discipline.--Shelvocke's final tragedies and triumphs.--George Anson's disasters in the South seas..--The last of the great South sea rovers. |
| SUBJECT: |
Buccaneers--Pacific Ocean. |
| SUBJECT: |
Pirates--Pacific Ocean. |
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