Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood

Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean

Adrian Tinniswood

343 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean-the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas-and how their conquests shaped the clash between Christianity and Islam. It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of...

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