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100 1 Flemming, Gregory N.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/n2014057491|eauthor.
245 10 At the point of a cutlass :|bthe pirate capture, bold
escape, & lonely exile of Philip Ashton /|cGregory N.
Flemming.
264 1 Lebanon, NH :|bForedge, an imprint of University Press of
New England,|c[2014]
300 1 online resource (241 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of
plates) :|billustrations, maps
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223, 225-
229) and index.
505 0 July 19, 1723 -- The Rebecca -- The capture -- To the
Azores -- Dangerous waters -- Roatan -- The Baymen -- The
Bay of Honduras -- Illustrations -- As one coming from the
dead -- "Ashton's memorial" -- Pirate executions and
pirate treasure.
520 The astonishing true story of a young sailor's ordeal
during the golden age of piracy.
520 Taken in a surprise attack near Nova Scotia in June 1722,
Ashton was forced to sail across the Atlantic and back
with a crew under the command of Edward Low, a man so
vicious he tortured victims by slicing off an ear or nose
and roasting them over a fire. "A greater monster," one
colonial official wrote, "never infested the seas." Ashton
barely survived the nine months he sailed with Low's crew
-- he was nearly shot in the head at gunpoint, came close
to drowning when a ship sank near the coast of Brazil, and
was almost hanged for secretly plotting a revolt against
the pirates. Like many forced men, Ashton thought
constantly about escaping. In March of 1723, he saw his
chance when Low's crew anchored at the secluded island of
Roatan, at the western edge of the Caribbean. Ashton fled
into the thick, overgrown woods and, for more than a year,
had to claw out a living on the remote strip of land,
completely alone and with practically nothing to sustain
him. The opportunity to escape came so unexpectedly that
Ashton ran off without a gun, a knife, or even a pair of
shoes on his feet. Yet the resilient young castaway -- who
has been called America's real-life Robinson Crusoe -- was
able to find food, build a crude shelter, and even survive
a debilitating fever brought on by the cool winter rains
before he was rescued by a band of men sailing near the
island.
588 0 Online resource; title from digital title page (EBL
platform, viewed July 21, 2014).
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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600 10 Ashton, Philip,|d1702-1746.|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/nr91022151
600 17 Ashton, Philip,|d1702-1746.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org
/fast/1805513
648 7 18th century|2fast
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650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235
651 0 Roatán (Honduras)|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n2004031237
655 4 Electronic books.
655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
776 08 |iPrint version:|aFlemming, Gregory N.|tAt the Point of a
Cutlass : The Pirate Capture, Bold Escape, and Lonely
Exile of Philip Ashton.|dLebanon : ForeEdge an Imprint of
University Press of New England, ©2014|z9781611685152
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