Nov 19, 2008
The Sea Rovers | The Sea Rovers
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Marrin
- First Published: 1984
- Time of Work: 1567–1815
- Setting: England, the Americas, the Indian Ocean, China, and North
Africa’s Barbary Coast
- Principal Characters: Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, Pierre Le Grand, Jean-David Nau L’Olonnois, Sir Henry Morgan, Thomas Tew, Captain William Kidd, Edward Teach, Ching Yih Saou, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr.
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: England or English people, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Sea or seafaring life, Military life or service, China or Chinese people, Biography, Pirates
- Locales: England, Oceans, China, Barbary Coast
Form and Content
In The Sea Rovers: Pirates, Privateers, and Buccaneers,
Albert Marrin provides an overview of piracy from 1567 to 1815, while
emphasizing the more notable figures in roughly chronological order.
Thus the book is both a history text and a collective biography.
Marrin divides his subject into seven chapters. The first deals with
Sir Francis Drake and his grudge against Spain. The second, “The
Rise of the Buccaneers,” treats the group of French outcasts on
Hispaniola who became a threat to Spanish shipping. The third chapter
deals with Sir Henry Morgan,...
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