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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephan Talty
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 37183
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0307236617
Dewey Decimal Number: 972
EAN: 9780307236616
ASIN: 0307236617
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
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A May 2007 Book Sense Pick
“Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean will sate even fickle Jack Sparrow fans. . . . A pleasure to read from bow to stern.”
—Entertainment Weekly
The passion and violence of the age of exploration and empire come to vivid life in this story of the legendary pirate who took on the greatest military power on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades. 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, Empire of Blue Water brilliantly re-creates the life and times of Henry Morgan and the real pirates of the Caribbean.
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Review of Empire of Blue Water. July 5, 2008
H. A. V. Raven (Zulia University, Maracaibo, Venezuela)
This book is the story of a criminal. Infamous Henry Morgan and his bunch of criminals attacked, sacked, murdered and raped in my hometown of Maracaibo in the 17th century. Although this was a long time ago at it's moment it was the equivalent of 9/11 for the town. It was a traitorous, unprovoked attack on a peaceful city. Same thing happened to other Spanish American cities such as Panama. It is interesting to read that he was later an admired citizen of Jamaica. As don Quixotte said, " You will see things Sancho!". The book is interesting reading such as one would read about Hitler's story.
Worth your time! June 20, 2008
USMC0882 (Cincinnati, Ohio USA)
My review is simple and to the point. While at the airport without a book to read, and facing a long delay, I picked Empire of Blue Water up and thought "what the hell..." and bought it. I was engaged from the first until the last page. It is an outstanding to unbelievable account of Captain Henry Morgan. How this has not been made a movie yet, I do not know. I have read many books on leadership, the Shackelton's etc., and the fact that Morgan led such an "army" and was so successful (relative if pillaging and robbing can be described as successful) and actually survived to an fairly old age is astonishing. You don't have to be a fan of Pirates, Buccaneers, etc., to enjoy it. I found myself wanting to visit the city under the sea after reading this book.
A Pirate's Life for Me? May 20, 2008
Joseph Valentine Dworak (Minneapolis, MN)
A good book on the history of piracy in the Caribbean. The book focuses on the life of Capt. Morgan, a pirate / privateer / colonial official, who undertook some daring missions on behalf of England against Spain. The book really centers on Morgan, and then at the end focuses a bit on the devastating earthquake that Jamaica soon after his death.
I think the author could have spent more time on the earthquake than the final few pages. It was like he hinted at the coming devastation throughout the book then did not spend that much time on the subject of the natural disaster. Just a slight critique. Overall a fun and fast read.
Joseph Valentine Dworak
 Shallow, poorly researched, mediocre May 6, 2008
S. Coelho (Cambridge, MA USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I picked up this book based on backcover praise (Washington Post, NY Times), but was clearly deceived. The book is mediocre, shallow and incredibly childish in its view of historic events and international politics.
What is more striking is that the author seems to have been in contact with at least some sources and historic documents to be able to put together a good quality account. However, he does very little with that information, and instead is taken overboard by his manicheistic view of things, depicting a crowd of disgrunteld murderors and thieves as emblems of some free-trade democratic ideal. He can ramble on for dozens of pages on his own hollywoodesque interpretation of pirate life in Port Royal, and then condense Morgan's first ever expedition into Mexico in a couple of pages full of gross innacuracies, such as the detour he takes in approaching Villahermosa (which goes from 300 to 3700 miles in the space of a paragraph - not a bad trek for a bunch of pirates on foot!).
The only advice I can give is: save your time and money, go look elsewhere for a good reliable book on the subject.
 Pirates April 15, 2008
Brad O. Broadfoot (Wichita, KS)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was an excellent book, if you've ever been to the Caribbean you can just visualize the pirates of the period. One of the things that surprised me was the amount of loot, $ 10 to $ 26 million in today's dollars per haul. Then the men would go back to St Royal and blow it all in a few months.The pirates of the day were not the Errol Flynn type at high sea, but land based armies with the ships waiting offshore. A fun book, perfect for a cruise ship vacation. Brad BroadfootEmpire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
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