LEADER 03292nam 2200565 450 001 9910786413903321 005 20230803202825.0 010 $a1-61168-562-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000121587 035 $a(EBL)1524252 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001305270 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11861180 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001305270 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11257176 035 $a(PQKB)10396071 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1524252 035 $a(OCoLC)890575626 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33795 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1524252 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10878093 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL616189 035 $a(OCoLC)881162542 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000121587 100 $a20140609h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAt the point of a cutlass $ethe pirate capture, bold escape, and lonely exile of Philip Ashton /$fGregory N. Flemming ; designed by Mindy Basinger Hill 210 1$aLebanon, New Hampshire :$cForeEdge,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61168-515-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aJuly 19, 1723 -- The Rebecca -- The capture -- To the Azores -- Dangerous waters -- Roatan -- The Baymen -- The Bay of Honduras -- As one coming from the dead -- "Ashton's memorial" -- Pirate executions and pirate treasure. 330 $aTaken 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. 607 $aRoata?n (Honduras) 607 $aHonduras$zRoata?n$2fast 676 $a972.83030924 700 $aFlemming$b Gregory N.$01530291 702 $aHill$b Mindy Basinger 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786413903321 996 $aAt the point of a cutlass$93775276 997 $aUNINA