Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean - Hardcover

Tinniswood, Adrian

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9780224085267: Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean

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ISBN 10: 0224085263 ISBN 13: 9780224085267

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2010

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"This rollicking book unpicks a confusion of names, dates and places to produce a fascinating history of seabourne conflict." --"Daily Telegraph""Adrian Tinniswood is a masterly writer of history with a gift for slamming his readers into the thick of the action." "--Literary Review""From the Trade Paperback edition."

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Pirates of Barbary is an extraordinary record of the European renegades and Islamic sea-rovers who terrorised the Mediterranean and beyond throughout the seventeenth century. From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and slaves - raiding as far as Iceland and New England in search of their human currency. Studying the origins of these men, their culture and practices - from pirate etiquette to intimidation tactics - Adrian Tinniswood expertly recreates the twilight world of the corsairs in fascinating detail, and uncovers a truly remarkable clash of civilisations.

Pirates of Barbary draws on an incredible wealth of material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as recent Islamic accounts to provide a new perspective on the corsairs, both as criminals and as devout warriors engaged in a battle against European incursions. The result is a kaleidoscopic image of a wild and exotic people, place and time, and a fascinating insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a life so violent, so uncertain, and so alien that it set you apart from the rest of mankind.

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