Book
The pirate king : the strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the Golden Age of Piracy / Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781639365951 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xix, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2024.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Avery, John, active 1695. Espionage > Great Britain. Piracy > Economic aspects. Pirates > Great Britain > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | 910.45 Kin | 31681010367241 | NONFIC | Available | - |
Dr. Sean Kingsley is a marine archaeologist who has explored over 350 wrecks from Israel to America. Off the UK he identified the worldâs earliest Royal African Company English âslaverâ ship. Sean writes for National Geographic and is the founder of Wreckwatch magazine about the worldâs sunken wonders. He is the author of God's Gold: A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem and Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Translatlantic Slave Trade (with Simcha Jacobovici), also available from Pegasus Books.
Rex Cowan is a former lawyer turned shipwreck hunter, author and broadcaster.  He served in the Royal Air Force and has a law degree from Kingâs College London and is also a Fulbright scholar.  He has since become Britainâs most successful shipwreck hunter and worked with John Le Carré on A Century of Images. Photographs by the Gibson Family and Castaway and Wrecked.
