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Empire of Blue Water
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Henry Morgan challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades - and brought it to its knees. A twenty-year-old Welshman, he arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Carribean in the service of the English became legend. Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, the wickedest city in the New World, Morgan's daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings and queens. His victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.
Awash with bloody battles, political intrigues and a cast of characters more compelling, bizarre, and memorable than any found in a Hollywood swashbucker - 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 the Blue Water brilliantly recreates the passions and violence of the age of exploration and empire. What's more, it chillingly depicts the apocalyptic natural disaster that finally ended the pirates' dominion.
Henry Morgan challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades - and brought it to its knees. A twenty-year-old Welshman, he arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Carribean in the service of the English became legend. Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, the wickedest city in the New World, Morgan's daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings and queens. His victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.
Awash with bloody battles, political intrigues and a cast of characters more compelling, bizarre, and memorable than any found in a Hollywood swashbucker - 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 the Blue Water brilliantly recreates the passions and violence of the age of exploration and empire. What's more, it chillingly depicts the apocalyptic natural disaster that finally ended the pirates' dominion.
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