{"product_id":"9781035917556","title":"The Queen's Pirate : The Triumphant Life and Tragic End of Thomas Cavendish, Elizabethan Privateer (by Iain Gately)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn June 1593, a ghostly ship drifted into an Irish harbour. Only 16 crewmen remained alive, and the deck was littered with the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was the melancholy homecoming of the ship Desire, one of a fleet of five that had left England two years before, fuelled by dreams of Spanish gold and the glory of exploring the globe. The expedition's captain, thirty-one-year-old Thomas Cavendish, had been lost in the South Atlantic and was presumed dead: a victim of disease, mutiny, and an excess of ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet just five years earlier, in 1588, things had been very different. Cavendish had returned aboard the Desire triumphant from circumnavigating the world in record time, having taken a Manila galleon and secured the largest haul of treasure ever to fall into English hands. Cavendish sailed the Desire to Greenwich and paid homage to Queen Elizabeth I, staging a lavish banquet for her on board.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Queen's Pirate, Iain Gately traces the career of this remarkable Elizabethan mariner from spectacular triumphs to great betrayals and an ill-fated final voyage. Gately expertly steers readers through Cavendish’s tempestuous life, as he crafts the first biography of an unjustly neglected Elizabethan hero.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67866419986659,"sku":"9781035917556","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781035917556.jpg?v=1793379257","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781035917556","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}