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ORIGINAL UNBELIEVABLE. 2/4: 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.  2/4: 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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Visit sumup.co.uk to learn more. I'm John Thatcher with Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan, the author of the new book, The Pirate King,

0:30.6

The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy.

0:34.6

Avery's gone. He's disappeared. It's now 1696 in an inn called

0:42.1

the World's End. And in that inn, at that day, is a man contemplating his own fate. His name

0:49.8

is foe, but he takes on the name Defoe because it sounds more princely. He's always in trouble.

0:56.3

He's always in debt. He's always come up with new schemes. He was born well and he lost it in a big

1:01.7

gamble of sailing from one side of the world to the other. And he needs a way out. And the way out, of course,

1:08.8

is that he's made friends with the reigning monarch

1:12.6

King William who came over in the glorious revolution.

1:16.6

Rexa come to you at this moment because you meet foe that you introduce foe who becomes

1:23.6

defoe and you're a measure of him as a, not just

1:29.5

as a novelist, we know him as Robinson

1:31.2

Crow, as a merchantman. Is this

1:33.2

representative of the time you gambled

1:35.3

and you won bigger, you lost?

1:37.4

Thanks, Rex.

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