The Buccaneers

The history of shipping cannot be written without the adventures of pirates and corsairs.
The buccaneers, originally French and English fortune seekers, hunted by Spanish colonists, settled on the island of Tortuga in the Caribbean Sea at the beginning of the 17th century. There the 'Brotherhood of the Coast' was born. Gradually they developed into real pirates. They roamed the surrounding seas of the Caribbean and later via the Isthmus of Panama on the Pacific Ocean, to fight their arch enemies - the Spanish.
Hungarian film director Piekalkiewicz, fascinated by the wild adventures of the buccaneers, studied the lives of these buccaneers on site and using authentic sources. As much as possible, he lets the sources speak for themselves. 'Because here too, reality is more fantastic than any fiction.
Drake, Pierre Legrand, Bartholomew the Portuguese, Francois Lolonois and Henry Morgan, are famous figures of this period. These are their adventures, which are told in this book without embellishment and romance, supported by historical source material. These stories give a good picture of the adventurous and horde life of the colonists and fortune seekers in the seventeenth century. The book is illustrated with a large number of authentic prints and engravings.