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Empire of Blue Water

Henry Morgan and the Pirates Who Ruled the Carribean Waves

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Empire of Blue Water

By: Stephan Talty
Narrated by: David Bauckham
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He challenged the greatest empires on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades - and brought it to its knees. Henry Morgan crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune.

Awash with bloody battles, political intrigues, and natural disasters, Empire of Blue Water brilliantly re-creates the passion and the violence of the age of exploration and empire.

©2009 Stephan Talty (P)2009 Oakhill Publishing Europe

Critic reviews

"Fresh insight into pirates' dens of old ...Well-researched non fiction that reads like a novel." ( Washington Times)
" Talty strips away the legend to recreate a pivotal era in this accesible portrait of the pirates of the Caribbean." ( Publishers Weekly)
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A very accomplished production in all respects, the audio is about as good as it gets on Audible - near perfect. The original content is engageing from beginning to end. An extraordinary story of a legendary figure brought to life.

An excellent history

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Couldn't quite bring myself to write the whole review in pirate argot. An excellent mix of tall tales, interesting personalities and social history. Not sure about the device of using an archetypal pirate character as a parallel for Henry Morgan but despite what may simply have been a device to reduce the amount of research time to produce the book it was still a rattling read

Aaargh

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I very much enjoyed this book which gave me a lot of information in a great narrative and lots of investigation afterwards

interesting and insightful story, well read

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A thoroughly enjoyable and informative book. It details the life of Morgan, and puts it in the context of the geopolitical climate of the time. The author has a very informal and narrative style that makes it an easy but enthralling listen, and the narrator does an excellent job of bringing it all to life. For anyone interested in the brutal days of the Pirates, Buccaneers and Privateers in the Caribbean, then I would highly recommend this book.

Excellent.

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loved it. Spain, Jamaica, captain Morgan, and the history of Spain and England in the Caribbean

captain Morgan

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