Name: Historia General de los Piratas (in Spanish)
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Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9788477028529

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Historia General de los Piratas (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daniel Defoe

Publisher

Valdemar

Collection

El Club Diógenes

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

928

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9788477028529

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Historia General de los Piratas (in Spanish)"

Publicada originalmente (la primera parte) en 1724 con la firma del Capitán Charles Johnson seudónimo tras el que se ocultaba, como se ha sabido mucho después, el autor dePublicada originalmente (la primera parte) en 1724 con la firma del Capitán Charles Johnson seudónimo tras el que se ocultaba, como se ha sabido mucho después, el autor de Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, Historia general de los piratas se inicia con las biografías de diecisiete notables piratas ingleses de la época (Avery, Mary Read, Barbanegra...), acompañadas de consideraciones generales sobre la piratería, sus peligros para las naciones, sus causas y posible remedio.Tras esta primera parte, dedicada a la piratería en occidente, la segunda se ocupa de los capitanes y tripulaciones que actuaban en torno a Madagascar, la costa africana y el océano Índico.Se remonta Defoe siete años atrás para fechar el origen de su Historia General al año 1717, año en que el rey Jorge I publica el famoso «Edicto para la supresión de los piratas», ofreciendo el perdón real a los capitanes y tripulaciones que abandonasen sus actividades delictivas, y arbitrando medidas de fuerza para acabar con quienes persistieran en el bandidaje marítimo. Las andanzas y persecuciones que vivieron aquellos hombres y mujeres que desafiaron la autoridad real es el tema central de esta peculiar y fascinante historia.

Daniel Defoe

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English writer and journalist, Daniel Defoe is mainly known for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), though he also stood out for his role in the development of the press and for his political and social essays

Defoe left his studies to become a discreet businessman, whose activities were not entirely profitable, even receiving prison time for his debts

From 1695, after several years of exile due to his political ideology, he starts a new business dedicated to tiles and bricks which begins to work, providing his family—he was married and had six children—with greater economic stability

However, his political activism leads him to publish several essays or pamphlets that cost him days of imprisonment and the pillory. After returning to jail, Defoe begins working from a magazine supporting political factions of the government, participating in the English secret services

In 1719 he publishes his great novel, Robinson Crusoe, which allows him to launch into a literary career marked by successes such as The Adventures of Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, or Moll Flanders. His popularity grew and his influence on subsequent generations of writers by enhancing the novelistic genre is notable

Despite all his success and his connections with the government, Defoe never achieved stable economic solvency for long. His death in 1731 occurred while fleeing from new creditors

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