Pirates of Barbary - Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-century Mediterranean (Tinniswood Adrian)(Paperback)

Drawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as Islamic accounts, this title provides perspectives of the corsairs and an insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a life so violent, so uncertain and so alien that it sets you apart from the rest of
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