This rogue letter was labeled as written by Avery the Pirate. Henry Avery, who had seized an English frigate and commandeered a flotilla of 440 men and six ships, attacked a Mughal ship called the ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Henry Avery stealthily steered ... Most ballads and books were convinced that Avery vanished in Madagascar, home to a supposed utopian pirate colony called ...

The pair have co-­authored a book, The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy, that reconsiders the story of one of the most notorious ­men ...

He was born perhaps as Henry Avery on the southwest coast of England ... As Steven Johnson notes in his page-turner of a book, “Enemy of All Mankind,” Every was at one time the most hunted ...

The story of one of Britain's most fabled men has now been revived by Dr Kingsley in a book he has co-authored called - The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the ...

Born in the West Country, Henry Avery (or Every, also known as John Avery and “Long Ben”) was recruited as first mate on a ship which he hijacked and sailed to Madagascar. There he recruited a ...