Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd

Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd, by Barry Clifford with Paul Perry
William Morrow 2003
276 pages, photos, no index
Library: 910.9 CLI

Description
When history's most famous pirate, Captain Kidd, was hanged in 1701, he left behind a trail of treasure and treachery that stretched halfway around the world. For undersea explorer Barry Clifford, the biggest prize of all would be to find the Adventure Galley, Kidd's legendary pirate ship. In the world of pirate archeology, it was the Holy Grail.

With the help of the Discovery Channel, Clifford fields an expedition that includes some of America's top experts in shipwreck recovery. Their goal is to find, identify, and possibly excavate the remains of history's most famous pirate ship. The search takes them to the exotic nation of Madagascar and a tiny island off its rocky coast known to historians as the model for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

There, amid pirate graveyards, broken porcelain intended for a European royal family, and native rituals that include blood sacrifice, Clifford and his crew find far more than they bargained for. The island's murky harbor is is filled with sunken pirate ships, making it difficult to single out the Adventure Galley, and the shores are teeming with people who want the expedition stopped. The team races to find the ship before the dark forces expel them from the island--forcces motivated by the same resentment and greed that caused Kidd's dowbnfall.

Return to Treasure Island and the Searcg for Captain Kidd's Treasure weaves ogether two exciting stories: the saga of Captain William Kidd, one of nistories most baffling and mysterious figures, and Barry Clifford's obsessive quest to find perhaps the most notorious pirate ship of all time. The result is a tale of treasure and adventure that ends in death--both Kidd's and, three hundred years later, that of a rival archaeologist who attempts to stop Clifford's expedition.

Table of Contents
Part 1: The First Expedition
1. Being There
2. Theft By Commission
3. A Jumbled Graveyard
4. Privateer, Inc.
5. Treasures to Explore
6. The Rogue's Rogue
7. A Likely Suspect
8. Murder and Piracy
9. The First Bank of Kidd
10. Now I Am One
11. Zebu-Que
12. Brethren of the Sea

Part 2: The Second Expedition
13. Return to TReasure Island
14. "Wickedness So Great"
15. The Tech TEam
16. England's Most Wanted
17. The Tunnels of Pirate IOsland
18. False REdemption
19. Pirate Gold
20. "Never a Greater Liar"
21. The Fiery Dragon
22. As Good as Hanged

Part 3: The Third Expedition
23. Friday the 13th
24. "Moved and Seduced"
25. Battle of the Full Moon
26. "Not Designedly Done"
27. A Son of a Pirate
28. The Greatest and Worst of All
29. The TRick-or-Treat Show
30. Twice to the Gallows
31. "No One Should Die Alone"
32. The Unrequited Legacy
33. The Brotherhood of Pirates
Acknowledgements

Photos
"Air Mad" flying into Ile Sainte-Marie
Orchidees Bungalows
Pirate and native girl on Ile Saint-Marie
Causeway crossing Prirate Bay/Baie des Forbans
Archaeologist John de Bry and Technician Charlie Burnham
Island guide Andre Mabily and John de Bry
Satellite image of Ile Saint-Marie
17th century map of Pirate Bay, with Ilot Madame and Pirate Island
Barry Clifford with dive mask
woodcut, Captain Kidd shooting William Moore
Brandon and Barry Clifford
John de Bry, Barry Clifford and Ben Parry
Unidentified natives and a zebu
Barry Clifford drinking betsa betsa, and unidentified islanders
French guide Gilles Gautier
Todd Murphy and Jenny Clifford
Jenny's sketch of wreck site
Alan Witten and GEM
Alan Witten's sketch of tunnels on Pirate's Island
Doug Miller of Witten TEchnologies, John DeBry, and unidentified individuals
Brandon Clifford
Howard Pyle's illustration of pirate's burying treasure on Grdiner Island
Barry Clifford and John de Bry
Gregory the local security guard
Double eagle motif on poreclain from Fiery Dragon
Annick Ratsiraka and unidentified man
John de Bry
Wes Spiegel with sonar
Stephanie de Bry
Dick Swete
Margot Nicol-Hathaway
French guides Fabrice andDigiovanni and Gilles Gautier
Captain Kidd on his gibbet
Bob Paine, Catherine Harker, Chris Macort
Jeff Denholm
Various artifacts from the Adventure galley site
Barry Clifford sand two unidentified men (one is De Bry)