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Résumé de Sir Henry Morgan, flibustier
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For readers who love sea adventure, Caribbean history told as a story, and portraits of ambitious men pursuing wealth, rank and command.
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Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer is an adventure novel by Cyrus Townsend Brady, an American clergyman who also wrote popular historical fiction and naval history. It takes as its hero the Welsh sea raider whose name became a byword for the pirates of the Caribbean.
Brady draws on the real world of the Spanish Main, the coasts and islands where English, French and Dutch raiders hunted Spanish treasure in the seventeenth century. You get a sea tale built around one driven man, and a question that runs under it: what does power cost the person who wins it? In this summary you will meet the setting, the hero, the kind of story Brady tells and the ideas behind it. First, the world in which Morgan rose.
Dans ce résumé
- 1The Spanish Main sets the stageFree
- 2Morgan is a man of fierce ambition
- 3Real raids give the plot its backbone
- 4Power, reward and the price paid
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The Spanish Main sets the stage
The Spanish Main was the name given to the Caribbean coast of Spanish America and the waters around it. Spain held rich colonies there, and silver and gold moved by ship and mule train toward Europe. That wealth drew rivals. English, French and Dutch captains came to take what they could, sometimes with the quiet blessing of their governments.
The raiders were called buccaneers. The word first described hunters on the island of Hispaniola who smoked meat over wooden frames, and it later came to mean sea raiders based in the Caribbean. Their base for much of the later seventeenth century was Port Royal in Jamaica, an English colony that grew rich and rowdy on plunder and trade.
Brady's novel is set in this world. It gives you hot harbors, crowded ships, fortified towns and the constant risk of capture or death. Knowing this background helps you see why a poor young man might gamble everything on the sea, and why a leader who could win battles might rise very fast.
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Questions about Sir Henry Morgan, flibustier
What is Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer about?
It is an adventure novel about Henry Morgan, the Welsh-born raider of the Spanish Main. Brady builds a romance around the real buccaneer's rise and the cost of his ambition.
Was Henry Morgan a real person?
Yes. Henry Morgan was a real seventeenth-century buccaneer who led raids on Spanish towns, including Porto Bello and Panama City. He was later knighted and served as an official in Jamaica.
What is the Spanish Main?
It is the old name for the Caribbean coast of Spanish America and the nearby seas. Spanish treasure ships sailed from there, which drew pirates and privateers.
Who wrote Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer and when?
Cyrus Townsend Brady wrote it in the early twentieth century. Brady was an American clergyman and a prolific author of historical fiction and naval history.
Is Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer a true story?
It is a novel built on a real life. Brady follows the known career of Morgan but writes as a romancer, so scenes and emphasis come from his storytelling.