HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Hawaii Newspaper
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Video Title Browse
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Name Keyword
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List) (PUBLIC)
Series Keyword
Talking Book Title Browse
Score Title Browse
Subject Browse
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Flemming, Gregory N., author.
Subjects
Ashton, Philip, 1702-
Pirates -- History -- 18th century.
Roatán (Honduras)
Browse Catalog
by author:
Flemming, Gregory N., author.
by title:
At the point of a cu...
MARC Display
At the point of a cutlass : the pirate capture, bold escape, & lonely exile of Philip Ashton / Gregory N. Flemming.
by
Flemming, Gregory N., author.
Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England, [2014]
Subjects
Ashton, Philip, 1702-
Pirates -- History -- 18th century.
Roatán (Honduras)
ISBN:
9781611685152
161168515X
Description:
241 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
July 19, 1723 -- The Rebecca -- The capture -- To the Azores -- Dangerous waters -- Roatan -- The Baymen -- The Bay of Honduras -- As one coming from the dead -- "Ashton's memorial" -- Pirate executions and pirate treasure.
Requests:
0
Summary:
Taken in a surprise attack near Nova Scotia in June 1722, Ashton was forced to sail across the Atlantic and back with a crew under the command of Edward Low, a man so vicious he tortured victims by slicing off an ear or nose and roasting them over a fire. "A greater monster," one colonial official wrote, "never infested the seas." Ashton barely survived the nine months he sailed with Low's crew -- he was nearly shot in the head at gunpoint, came close to drowning when a ship sank near the coast of Brazil, and was almost hanged for secretly plotting a revolt against the pirates. Like many forced men, Ashton thought constantly about escaping. In March of 1723, he saw his chance when Low's crew anchored at the secluded island of Roatan, at the western edge of the Caribbean. Ashton fled into the thick, overgrown woods and, for more than a year, had to claw out a living on the remote strip of land, completely alone and with practically nothing to sustain him. The opportunity to escape came so unexpectedly that Ashton ran off without a gun, a knife, or even a pair of shoes on his feet. Yet the resilient young castaway -- who has been called America's real-life Robinson Crusoe -- was able to find food, build a crude shelter, and even survive a debilitating fever brought on by the cool winter rains before he was rescued by a band of men sailing near the island.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
910.45 Fl
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.