{"product_id":"the-lost-fleet-barry-clifford-9798228950184","title":"The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'Estrées, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Fleet\u003c\/i\u003e portrays a dark age, when the outcasts of European society formed a democracy of buccaneers, settling on a string of islands off the African coast. From there, the pirates haunted the world's oceans, wreaking havoc on the settlements along the Spanish mainland and--often enlisted by French and English governments--sacking ships, ports, and coastal towns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than three hundred years later, writer, explorer, and deep-sea diver Barry Clifford follows the pirates' destructive wake back to Venezuela. With the help of a lost map, drawn by the captain of the lost French fleet, Clifford locates the site of the disaster and wreckage of the once-mighty armada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Clifford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228950184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tantor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Barry Clifford","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48659832570111,"sku":"9798228950184","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lost-fleet-barry-clifford-9798228950184","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}