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ORIGINAL UNBELIEVABLE 1/4: The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy Hardcover – April 2, 2024 by Sean Kingsley (Author), Rex Cowan (Author)

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🗓️ 21 September 2025

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ORIGINAL UNBELIEVABLE  1/4: The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy Hardcover – April 2, 2024 by  Sean Kingsley  (Author), Rex Cowan  (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-King-Strange-Adventures-Golden/dp/1639365958/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished into thin air—and into legend. More ballads, plays, biographies and books were written about Avery’s adventures than any other pirate. His contemporaries crowned him "the pirate king" for pulling off the richest heist in pirate history and escaping with his head intact (unlike Blackbeard and his infamous Flying Gang). Avery was now the most wanted criminal on earth. To the authorities, Avery was the enemy of all mankind. To the people he was a hero. Rumors swirled about his disappearance. The only certainty is that Henry Avery became a ghost.

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A treasure, a pirate's treasure, pirate's treasure that many have been looking for for more than 300 years. We're not going to find it, but we're going to establish that treasure.

0:44.3

And the incredible story that is attached to it, in the history of England and Scotland

0:51.3

and Great Britain and the Americas and the Indian Ocean.

0:55.0

I welcome the authors of a new book, The Pirate King, the Strange Adventures of Henry Avery

1:02.0

and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy.

1:05.0

Sean Kingsley, the historian Rex Cowan, our guide, a former lawyer and a man who seeks out adventure.

1:14.3

But in this instance, the adventure happened at the end of the 17th century.

1:19.0

This is a time when the American colonies are new, when the British Empire is putting itself together,

1:25.1

and it's found a gem called India.

1:29.5

But India has the richest man on earth. He's a Mughal. That is to say he's made of nothing but wealth paid to him by his

1:36.9

people. And in that instance, we begin with the adventure itself. It is September 28, 1695. There is a pirate ship

1:47.0

named Fancy. It's commended by a man who's known as Long Bend to his men, but whose name

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