The Prize of All the Oceans: Anson's Voyage Around the World
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ISBN: 0670891975 / Publisher: Viking Adult, June 2000
Recounts the adventures of British commodore George Anson and his four-year mission to seize Peruvian silver aboard the Spanish galleon en route from Acapulco to Manila, and describes how only the flagship Centurion survived.
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The action-packed true story of Commodore Anson's legendary 1740 mission to capture a Spanish galleon on the high seas chronicles the British officer's subsequent disastrous campaign that resulted mutiny, starvation, and heroism. 17,500 first printing.
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