At the Point of a Cutlass: The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely Exile of Philip Ashton

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A handful of sea stories define the American maritime narrative. Stories of whaling, fishing, exploration, naval adventure, and piracy have at all times captured our imaginations, and the most colorful of these are the tales of piracy. Known as The usa’s real-life Robinson Crusoe, the true story of Philip Ashton—a nineteen-year-old fisherman captured by pirates, impressed as a crewman, subjected to torture and hardship, who in the end escaped and lived as a castaway and scavenger on a deserted island in the Caribbean—was once at one time as well referred to as the tales of Cooper, Hawthorne, and Defoe. In line with a rare copy of Ashton’s 1725 account, Gregory N. Flemming’s vivid portrait recounts this maritime world all over the golden age of piracy. Fishing vessels and merchantmen plied the coastal waters and crisscrossed the Atlantic and Caribbean. It was once a hard, dangerous life, made more so by both the depredations and temptations of piracy. Chased by the British Royal Navy, blown out of the water or summarily hung when caught, pirate captains such as Edward Low kidnapped, cajoled, beat, and bribed men like Ashton into the wealthy—but also vile, brutal, and frequently short—life of the pirate. In the tradition of Nathaniel Philbrick, At the Point of a Cutlass expands on a lost classic narrative of The usa and the sea, and brings to life a forgotten world of ships and men on both sides of maritime law.

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