This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor.

Here's John Batchelor.

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.

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

and Great Britain and the Americas and the Indian Ocean,

I welcome the authors of a new book, The Pirate King,

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

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

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

This is a time when the American colonies are new,

when the British Empire is putting itself together,

and it's found a gem called India.

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 people. And in that instance, we begin with the adventure itself.

It is September 28, 1695. There is a pirate ship named Fancy.

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

Rex and Sean, congratulations.

This is wonderful.

I begin with you, Sean.

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