Hostis Humani Generis: Pirates Of Port Royal And Tortuga
The history of piracy has always held the imagination captive, both for what concerns the nautical and its techniques and for the geopolitical landscape it occupied. Its origins spring from the times of the ancient Egyptians to the Read More
Treasure Hunters Seeking Hide-Outs of Mascarene Pirates
In 1512 Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, identified a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar as the Mascarene islands (modern-day Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues). The Mascarenes were favorite haunts and hide-outs during...
Pirates of the Northern Seas and Scotland’s Oceanic Criminals
Pirates, maybe even more than mermaids and sea serpents, are the most fascinating and misunderstood entities of maritime history and while it is known today that mermaids were seals and giant serpents were the washed up carcasses of whales, the r...
Slaves and Sugar: ‘Black Gold’ and ‘White Gold’ of Mauritius’ Economy
Hunting for Captain Morgan’s Lost Inca Gold
Native mythology on San Andrés talks of the privateer Captain Henry Morgan burying a vast treasure in a sea cave and in December 2018, after two years of researching the life and times of Captain Morgan, the thought of an ancient treasure lying ...
