{"product_id":"book-av85","title":"Empire of Blue Water","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought  it to its knees. \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Blue Water\u003c\/i\u003e is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent  on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean  in the service of the English became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty  Spanish Empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his  victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorgan gathered disaffected  European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, and vicious  cutthroats, and turned them into the most feared army in the Western Hemisphere.  Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, “the wickedest city  in the New World,” Morgan and his men terrorized Spanish merchant ships and devastated  the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting. His last raid,  a daring assault on the fabled city of Panama, helped break Spain’s hold on the Americas  forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwash with bloody battles, political intrigues, natural disaster, and  a cast of characters more compelling, bizarre, and memorable than any found in a  Hollywood swashbuckler—including the notorious pirate L’Ollonais, the soul-tortured  King Philip IV of Spain, and Thomas Modyford, the crafty English governor of Jamaica—\u003ci\u003eEmpire  of Blue Water\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly re-creates the passions and the violence of the age of  exploration and empire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49340468429104,"sku":"BDav85","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/185058-av85-Square.jpg?v=1734044036","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-av85","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}