{"product_id":"the-lost-fleet-the-discovery-of-a-sunken-armada-from-the-golden-age-of-piracy-0060957794","title":"The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0060957794\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Clifford, Barry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\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.Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'Estrées, The Lost Fleet 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.More 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","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51599000174880,"sku":"NEW0060957794","price":13.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71OFKCNLDcL.jpg?v=1778457872","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-lost-fleet-the-discovery-of-a-sunken-armada-from-the-golden-age-of-piracy-0060957794","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}