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THOMAS, GRAHAM A: : PIRATE HUNTER - THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN WOODES ROGERS

UK.BARNSLEY,SOUTH YORKSHIRE.PEN & SWORD MARITIME/Pen & Sword Books Ltd.,2008.

ISBN 184415808X.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around.montaged, colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with b/w+brown lettering to front,brown+black lettering to spine with colour thumbnail detail from front illustration to same,and brown+black lettered contents details to rear panel of dw/dj respectively; and all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges exceptionally bright and clean and without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xipp +2-176pp [paginated] includes verso of contents list/table,author's Preface, author's Introduction,15 chapters,8pp contemporary,historical b/w illustration reproductions and modern b/w scenic photographs in 1 block,between pp82/3, appendices (3),Notes,Further Reading and an Index; plus [unpaginated] blank.half-title with blank verso,title page,recto of contents list/table with dedication to verso,recto of illus list/table,and at the rear,2pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships,the Duke and Duchess,on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous.His mission was to attack,plunder and pillage Spanish ships wherever he could.And,as Graham A. Thomas shows in this tense and exciting narrative,after a series of pursuits and sea battles he returned laden with booty and with a reputation as one of the most audacious and shrewd fighting captains of the age.He was then appointed governor of the Bahamas by George I with the task of suppressing the pirates who roamed this corner of the Caribbean and preyed on its shipping.He was equally successful as a privateer and pirate hunter in an age when brutality and ruthlessness were the law of the sea.Graham A. Thomas follows Woodes Rogers' brilliant career using his own vivid journal and a broad range of contemporary sources.From Rogers' first daring voyage as a privateer,through his many sea fights and his hunt for pirates,a many-sided portrait of this resourceful man emerges.He lived dangerously in a dangerous age,and he was not afraid of confronting the most powerful and treacherous pirates of the time, including Edward Teach,better known as Blackbeard.But Woodes Rogers who rescued the real Robinson Crusoe,Alexander Selkirk, the desert-island castaway who gave rise to one of the most famous books in English literature by Daniel Defoe. Graham A. Thomas' study of Woodes Rogers is the first modern biography of this extraordinary adventurer.It is fascinating reading. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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