The Cruise of the Alerte
Автор:
E. F. KnightЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-02-10Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
75
Description
In the early 1800s Spanish colonists fled the Peruvian War of Independence, taking the wondrous treasures of Lima with them. Making their escape on unguarded and poorly-equipped vessels, they were easy prey for the pirates swarming off the coast. A deathbed confession by the mysterious sole survivor of one such pirate crew—including a tattered map showing the location of their buried plunder—sets off a series of unsuccessful expeditions to recover the prize.
After hearing further details from the captains of those failed voyages, E. F. Knight concludes that there’s sufficient truth in the story to justify an expedition of his own, and he goes to great effort and expense to...
