A History of Piracy (1494-1588)
Publisher
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Hachette Littératures
Parution date
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2001
EAN
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9782012354630
Description
D’or, de rêves et de sang is an epic account of the history of piracy, from its development during the religious wars to its mythic and romantic evolution throughout the islands of the Caribbean. As Le Bris points out, these myths are set against an idyllic backdrop, yet they speak only of torture, pillage, orgies and bloodshed. Could it be that these brutal pirates, who seemed to obey no faith or law, who destroyed everything in their way, were also revolutionaries fighting injustice and dreaming of a better place?
Much has been written about freebooters and piracy, but not always with close attention to historical fact. In this groundbreaking work, Michel Le Bris sets the record straight, dispelling many of these myths. With a novelist’s style and a historian’s accuracy, he brings out the adventurer in all of us.
Author
Bris Bris : Biographer of Robert Louis Stevenson, Michel Le Bris has also edited several critical works, including Oexmelin’s Flibustiers du Nouveau Monde, and the first French editions of Captain Johnson’s Life of the Notorious Pirates and Dampier’s New Voyage Round the World. He is the founder of the travel writers’ (ecrivains-voyageurs) movement in France and the author of a documentary on pirates called "Les Anges noirs de l’utopie." He is also a popular and prolific novelist, with more than a dozen novels to his credit.
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