Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea venture to se

This is a story about the lust for gold and treasure," Fine writes. In the 1600s and 1700s, Spain dominated the oceans with its fleet of galleons. Coming to the

An account of the Spanish, Dutch, french, British, and American buccaneers who roamed the Spanished Main during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Carl O. Sauer uses contemporary sources to place the history of the early Spanish Main in a fresh context.

An 1859 account of a journey through the Caribbean and Central America by one of the most celebrated Victorian authors.