Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm going to a job bachelor with Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan.

John Kingsley the Marine historian, Rex Cowan the archaeologist and shipwreck hunter,

and both of them have come across the Pirate King, the strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the golden age of piracy.

There's a scene that they wonderfully present of Tennyson, the man the churchman who's at the end of the

dead drop for the letter that we saw Avery writing in Falma.

Tennyson and Defoe and Avery, all in all Avery in disguise coming out of a

play in London in 1719 I, or maybe it was 1712, yes.

And a play about Avery the Pirate, although it's vaguely described

as by Charles Johnson, and the man has a pseudonym that's meant to be Avery.

Everybody gets a joke because everybody's looking for Avery.

He's got a bounty on his head but most importantly he has a treasure that he's hidden somewhere. They all

want to know where he is. They come laughing out of the play and Rexa come to

you. Defoe wrote that play didn't he? you discover, did you know that the foe was making all this up and they were laughing all the time?

Not at all. In fact, I knew very little by the time that I'd looked at that. I hadn't been really interested either.

I mean, what has interested me is just how much I didn't know and how much I didn't imagine would come out of this

find a discovery. Otherwise I might have wasted a lot more of my life pursuing things which I wasn't

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