Friday, May 1, 2015

Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty

He challenged the greatest empire on Earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades-and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.

Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next tree decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legendary. His daring attack on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.

Morgan gathered disaffected European  sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, and vicious cutthroats, and turned them into the most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, "the wickedest city in the New World," Morgan and his men terrorized Spanish merchant ships and devastated the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting. His last raid, a daring assault on the fabled city of Panama, helped break Spain's hold on the Americas forever.

Awash with bloody battles, political intrigues, natural disaster, and a cast of characters more compelling, bizarre, and memorable than any found in a Hollywood swashbuckler-including the notorious pirate L'Ollonais, the soul-tortured King Philip IV of Spain, and Thomas Modyford, the crafty English governor of Jamaica-Empire of Blue Water brilliantly re-creates the passions and the violence of the age age of exploration and empire.

4 comments:

  1. So far this is good book. Something is...off...about this book though..."To get to the lost city of Port Royal, you take the busy road to the Michael Manley International Airport."

    Notice how it says you? I have never read a book like that. I'm sure i can get used to it. The beginning of the book doesn't really have any characters besides, you, and the taxi driver.

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  2. That sounds incredibly interesting, are "you" Henry Morgan?

    The Second Person point of view is really, really rare to see in fiction. Mostly in choose your own adventure stories.

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    1. I don't know yet. However, I gave up. I found a book much more interesting. It's called Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

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  3. Would you at least try and go back and give the book another try

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