{"product_id":"9780060957797","title":"The Lost Fleet : The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lost Fleet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Barry Clifford, Kenneth Kinkor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'Estrées, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Fleet\u003c\/em\u003e portrays a dark age, when the outcasts of European society formed a democracy of buccaneers, settling on a string of islands off the African coast. From there, the pirates haunted the world's oceans, wreaking havoc on the settlements along the Spanish mainland and -- often enlisted by French and English governments -- sacking ships, ports, and coastal towns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than three hundred years later, writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford follows the pirates' destructive wake back to Venezuela. With the help of a lost map, drawn by the captain of the lost French fleet, Clifford locates the site of the disaster and wreckage of the once-mighty armada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060957797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41034038280398,"sku":"9780060957797","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780060957797.jpg?v=1647745019","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060957797","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}