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Buccaneers of the Pacific / by George Wycherley.

by Wycherley, George, -1950.

Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company, [©1928]

Pacific Ocean -- Voyages and travels.

[14], 444 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

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.

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