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S'està carregant… The Buccaneers of America (1678)de Alexander O. Exquemelin
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (1646-post 1707) era apreciado en su época como amena fuente de información sobre los piratas del Caribe, con quienes había vivido. Por ello sus amigos le convencieron para que pusiera por escrito un conjunto de relatos y descripciones que se convirtieron en este Piratas de la América, que gozó de un inigualable éxito en su tiempo, y que ha influido notablemente en este género de literatura. En sus páginas se percibe la atracción que Exquemelin sintió por la aventura. El libro nos mete de lleno en la novelesca vida del autor, que examinamos en la introducción de la obra, junto con el contexto de la piratería del Caribe en su época dorada. Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, editor del volumen, es catedrático de literatura española en la Université de Neuchâtel (Suiza), y ha publicado numerosos estudios sobre literatura medieval y del Siglo de Oro, entre ellos una edición de La Dragontea, de Lope de Vega, sobre el último viaje de Francis Drake. Disturbing non fiction account of the lives of pirates in the Carribean, including Henry Morgan's sacking of Panama. Coupled with Marcus Reddiker's The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Peter Leeson's the Invisible Hook, and if you can ignore the brutality of it all, it's a fascinating look at the foundations of the self-organizing, democratic labour movement that would later develop in North America. Let no man be pressed into service. A period piece, no doubt about that! If you needed a single source to rip off for adventure stories, well, this is your victim. We based a seventeenth century role playing game on it, and seldom needed anything else except stock market reports and "How to Sail" books. Read your child this book, and they'll be cured of pirates for life, or bent for a career of delinquency on the Stock exchange. I would not be without a copy of these publications. Exquemelin published his book in 1682, in French and 1684 in English. Ringrose was a shipmate of Sharpe the privateer, and was killed during his second voyage, with Swan in 1686. His journal has been bound with the Exquemelin since the publication in 1685. This is a thick, hefty book. Full of the dastardly exploits of famous pirates, including Captain Morgan and L'Ollonais, it's marvelous history of those sea-dogs. It's a bit lengthy at points and can sometime get bogged down in minute details, but that doesn't detract from the overall story. Esquemeling probably sensationalize the details a bit, but the general story rings truth. This is considered the best historical accounts of pirates during the late 1600s, and one of the only ones told from an eye-witness. If you are a pirate affecinado, this is a must read. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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John Esquemeling (better known as Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin) (c. 1645-1707) was a French barber-surgeon best remembered for this classic account of the buccaneer pirates of the West Indies. After travelling to Tortuga in 1666, Esquemeling joined the buccaneer company of Henry Morgan, one of the most successful and notorious privateers of the period. This volume, first published in English in 1684, and now reissued from the 1893 reprint, contains Esquemeling's detailed account of Morgan's dramatic exploits and adventures. Covering the period 1668-1674, Esquemeling recounts in fascinating detail Morgan's infamous attacks on Spanish-controlled ports in Cuba, Hispaniola and Costa Rica, and vividly describes the sack of the city of Panama and its aftermath in 1671. This work was the first account published in English of the lives of the buccaneers, and remains one of the most important sources for descriptions of seventeenth-century piracy. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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