The Templar Pirates
Ernesto Frers
Destiny Books
c/o Inner Traditions
One Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767
1594771464, $14.95 www.destinybooks.com
When the Vatican condemned the Order of the Temple in 1312, many
who escaped took to sea intent
on revenge on the Church. The missing
Templar fleet later reappeared in the Mediterranean and later the
Caribbean and posed a threat to the Church's maritime commerce. THE
TEMPLAR PIRATES tells the story of the birth and conduct of piracy on
the New World seas, providing an important link between Templar history
and Church interactions and piracy as a whole. Any collection strong in
Templar or Catholic history will find this absorbing and unusual--and
many a general interest library will find it interesting for its
insights on early pirates, as well.