Cup of Gold
by John Steinbeck
“To conquer the Caribbean, he had to trade his soul for a crown of gold.”
Before he chronicled the American heartland, John Steinbeck set sail with this mythic reimagining of Henry Morgan’s bloody ascent from a Welsh farmhand to the most feared pirate in the Caribbean. It is a lush, haunting epic of ruthless ambition and the heavy price of chasing the legendary 'Cup of Gold' at the edge of the world.
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