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

    By Barry Clifford and Kenneth Kinkor

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    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'Estrées, 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 26, 2010
    ISBN9780061968013
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    • 3/5
      Barry Clifford likes to scuba dive and this exploration of a group of wrecks dating from late buccaneer history 1670's to 1690, is his way of making some money from the situation. I did not find the narrative captivating, but it is useful as a snap shot of the techniques at the turn of the millennium.