ORIGINAL UNBELIEVABLE. 3/4: 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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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.
1850
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| 0:29.6 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Pirate King, the strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the Golden Age of Piracy. Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan are here with me. |
| 0:34.6 | The story so far, Henry Avery, makes the biggest score anybody's ever heard of in England. |
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