{"product_id":"queens-pirate","title":"Queen's Pirate","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was the melancholy homecoming of the ship \u003ci\u003eDesire\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet just five years earlier, in 1588, things had been very different. Cavendish had returned aboard the \u003ci\u003eDesire \u003c\/i\u003etriumphant 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 \u003ci\u003eDesire\u003c\/i\u003e to Greenwich and paid homage to Queen Elizabeth I, staging a lavish banquet for her on board.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Queen's Pirate\u003c\/i\u003e, Iain Gately traces the career of this remarkable - and unjustly neglected - Elizabethan mariner from spectacular triumphs to great betrayals and an ill-fated final voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57297907777880,"sku":"9781035917556","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781035917556_dd584ab4-4a4d-43f0-a4c0-56c0bb7acaf4.jpg?v=1781163962","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/queens-pirate","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}