Pirates, Puns, and Prizes on the Peace River: Book One:

by Francisco Forrest Martin

Overview

Pirates, Puns, and Prizes on the Peace River. This book explodes the false belief that the early 19th-century pirate "José Gaspar" (also known as "Gasparilla") did not exist. The culmination of twenty years of extensive archival and archaeological research, this book reveals the true identity of "Gaspar" and provides a multidisciplinary history of "Gaspar" and his association with the pirates Jean and Pierre Laffite. This book also reveals the discoveries of several treasures that the Gaspar-Laffite pirates buried in southwest Florida as well as provides a cryptanalysis of their treasure maps and clues as to the locations of their other treasures that are highly likely still concealed in the swamps of the Peace River.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881100889
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/14/2024
Series:	Pirates, Puns, and Prizes on the Peace River , #1
Pages:	262
Sales rank:	376,497
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Francisco Forrest Martin is a former international law and U.S. constitutional law professor, human rights advocate, and specialist in Latin America. He is the former Ariel F. Sallows Professor of Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, former Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California-Berkeley Law School, and former visiting fellow and scholar at the University of Nottingham and Cambridge University. He is the author of The Constitution as Treaty (Cambridge Univ. Press) as well as the principal author of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Cambridge Univ. Press) that is the leading international human rights law school textbook in the world. He has litigated dozens of human rights cases before U.S. and international tribunals, including U.N., European, African, and Inter-American systems. He has litigated cases addressing Latin American liberation movements and was the first person since the U.S. Civil War to litigate a U.S. maritime piratical forfeiture and salvage case, which is the subject of this book.

A native of Florida, he received his B.A from Wake Forest University, A.M. from the University of Chicago, and LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.