Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Willem van de Velde the Elder. Real treasure - the Lima gold, Kidd's hoard, the Plate fleet, Cocos Island - with the documents, the salvage attempts and the men ruined by them. Paine was a maritime historian and separates what is recorded from what is repeated. This edition adds a gallery of 60 plates after Turner, Aivazovsky, Homer and others, alongside 28 illustrations restored and coloured for the first time.