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The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates

The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates

López Lázaro, Fabio

Paperback

ExplorationGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 0292743890
ISBN13: 9780292743892
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Jul 1 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez described the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating the world, he was freed and managed to return to Mexico, where the Spanish viceroy commissioned the well-known Mexican scholar Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to write down Ramírez's account as part of an imperial propaganda campaign against pirates.

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