Download or read book The Sallee Rovers written by Edward John Crockett and published by . This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PIRACY, POLITICS AND POWER SET AGAINST THE VIBRANT BACKDROP OF THE INFAMOUS SIXTEENTH CENTURY BARBARY COAST The year is 1576. A raid on the English township of Poole sees the abduction of sixteen year-old Jonathan Comber and his young sister Emma. Jonathan is taken to the North African port of Sale by renegade corsair captain Joshua Ward; Emma is auctioned into slavery and consigned to the harem of the Bey of Algiers. In the interim, brothers Miguel and Rodrigo de Cervantes Saavedra, veterans on their way home from service in the Spanish garrison in Naples, have been captured by North African pirates and imprisoned in the notorious jail of Algiers, from which they are resolved at all costs to escape. THE SALLEE ROVERS charts the progressively interlinked destinies of these principal characters against a complex ethnic and cultural backdrop. The novel draws on the documented experiences of Miguel de Cervantes, who languished five years in an Algerian prison before being ransomed and returned to his native Spain, where he would go on to write his celebrated novel DON QUIXOTE ...
Download or read book Beautiful Haid e Or the Sea Nymph and the Sallee Rovers written by Henry James Byron and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pirates of the Narrow Seas 1 written by M. Kei and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pirates of the Narrow Seas was a dashing good tale full of adventure and mayhem"-Sage Whistler, author of 'Broken' Lt. Peter Thorton of the 18th century British navy must struggle to come out gay while surviving storms at sea, ship to ship battles, duels, kidnapping, and more in his quest for true love and honor. Pirates of the Narrow Seas is an expertly crafted swashbuckler brimming with authentic detail and fully realized portraits of life at sea, written by a tall ship sailor and internationally acclaimed poet. Winner of a Sweet Revolution Award for 'best full cast' and 'Judge's Pick' and Winner of 4th Place/Honorable Mention Rainbow Award for 'best gay historical fiction.'
Download or read book The Barbary Wars written by Frank Lambert and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the adoption of the Constitution; the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812; the construction of a full-time professional navy; and, most important, the nation's haltering steps toward commercial independence. Frank Lambert's genius is to see in the Barbary Wars the ideal means of capturing the new nation's shaky emergence in the complex context of the Atlantic world. Depicting a time when Britain ruled the seas and France most of Europe, The Barbary Wars proves America's earliest conflict with the Arabic world was always a struggle for economic advantage rather than any clash of cultures or religions.
Download or read book The Rainborowes written by Adrian Tinniswood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history. These three decades witnessed the birth of English America and, in the mother country, a vicious civil war that rent the very fabric of English social, political, and religious life. It was an era of death and new beginnings, and at its heart was one remarkable family: the Rainborowes. In The Rainborowes, acclaimed historian Adrian Tinniswood tells the story of this all-but-forgotten clan for the very first time, showing how the family bridged two worlds as they struggled to build a godly community for themselves and their kin. The Rainborowes' patriarch, William, was a shipmaster and merchant whose taste for adventure and profit drew him into the expanding transatlantic traffic between England and its colonies in the New World. Eventually two of his daughters settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, marrying into the upper echelons of New England society. Back in England, meanwhile, William Rainborowe's sons threw themselves behind the English parliament in its rebellion against King Charles I. So, too, did many New World settlers, who returned to England to fight for the parliamentary cause. When the monarchy was restored in 1660, many of these revolutionaries quit their homeland for New England, where their dreams of liberty and equality were much closer to being realized. Following the Rainborowes from hectic London shipyards to remote Aegean islands, from the muddy streets of Boston to the battles of the English Civil War, Tinniswood reveals the indelible marks they left on America and England -- and the profound and irrevocable changes these thirty years had on the family and their fellow Englishmen in Europe and America. A feat of historical reporting, The Rainborowes spans oceans and generations to show how the American identity was forged in the crucible of England's bloody civil war.
Download or read book Ships Money and Politics written by Kenneth R. Andrews and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In neglecting maritime and naval matters, students of the reign of Charles I have missed or misunderstood important elements in the sickness of the early Stuart polity. The crisis of the monarchy at that time was bound up with the failure of the nation's sea forces in the wars of the 1620s and with Charles's efforts to reform and strengthen the navy by means of ship money. The studies of the shipping industry, shipowning, mutiny and one particular seaman's experience in the transatlantic servant's trade explore the economic and social aspects of seafaring, especially the relations between owners, masters, and men at a time of rapid growth and change in the merchant marine. But the relations between the merchant marine and the Royal Navy were so close that the two should be studied together. The essays on Sir Kenelm Digby's privateering venture in the Mediterranean, on ship money (the longest and most central), on the expedition against the Salle rovers, and on the Parliamentary Navy demonstrate in different ways how naval policy, naval finance, and naval enterprise were linked with the problems and the interests of the private sector, which actually took over the Navy in 1642, with not altogether savory results. This novel juxtaposition of topics will, it is hoped, stimulate new thinking about Caroline society and politics.--Book jacket.
Download or read book White Gold written by Giles Milton and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.
Download or read book Robin Hood and the Sallee Rovers Or The Sea Tigers Raid written by G. C. Glover and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Middle East and North Africa written by Reeva S. Simon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles by contemporary scholars honoring Middle East scholar J.C. Hurewitz. Includes: the struggle for Palestine continued; Middle East politics: comparative dimensions; and the Middle East and North Africa in international politics.
Download or read book Robinson Crusoe Readalong written by Daniel Defoe and published by Ags Pub. This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Plan of the English Commerce written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
Download or read book Barbary Captives written by Mario Klarer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial number of the European captives who later returned home from the Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery as well as of the Muslim world. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity narrative as a literary and historical genre.
Download or read book The History of the Second Queen s Royal Regiment written by John Davis and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
