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

Informationen zum Autor Adrian Tinniswood Klappentext 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 mankind. Zusammenfassung 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 mankind.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Tinniswood, TINNISWOOD ADRIAN
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780099523864
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952386-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Africa / North, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Mediterranean Sea, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699