Rex Cowan

About The Author

Rex Cowan is a former lawyer turned shipwreck hunter, author and broadcaster.  He served in the Royal Air Force and has a law degree from King’s College London and is also a Fulbright scholar.   He has since become Britain’s most successful shipwreck hunter and worked with John Le Carré on A Century of Images. Photographs by the Gibson Family and Castaway and Wrecked.

Books by Rex Cowan

The Pirate King

The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

By Sean Kingsley and Rex Cowan
The incredible story of the “Robin Hood of the Seas,” who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret.
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