White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
de Milton, Giles
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004 0340794690. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing with full number line. DW is price clipped, No annotations or inscriptions, Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; illustrated endpapers, xvii, (i), 316pp plus 16pp plates. Black boards with gilt title to spine. Internally clean tight and square, Overall an excellent copy. Includes index, notes and sources. The extraordinary and shocking story of Europeans captured by Islamic Barbary pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa. This is the fascinating story of a Cornish cabin boy, Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades who were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs in the summer of 1716. Resourceful, resilient and quick-witted, the young cabin boy was selected by Moroccan Sultan Moulay Ismail, and as a personal slave of the sultan would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour and daily terror of the imperial Moroccan court. .
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- Título
- White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
- Autor
- Milton, Giles
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- ISBN 10
- 0340794690
- ISBN 13
- 9780340794692
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- London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004 0340794690
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- June 7, 2004
- Palabras clave
- Slaves North Africa Morocco Christians Islam Harem Concubines Arabs Turks Mediterranean QSE
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