Anglický jazyk

White Gold

Vydavateľstvo: Hodder&Stoughton
Rok vydania: 2004
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 0340834943

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O knihe

In the summer of 1716, Cornish cabin boy Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Fanatical Islamic slave traders were snatching thousands of Europeans for the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Sale in Morocco. Poked, prodded and put through their paces, they were sold at auction to the highest bidder.
Pellow and his ship-mates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco, who was constructing a vast imperial pleasure palace, built entirely by Christian slave labour. Being a resourceful, resilient and quick-thinking man, Thomas Pellow was selected to be a personal slave of the sultan, and was one of the fortunate few who survived to tell his tale.
White Gold is an extraordinary and shocking story. Drawn from unpublished letters and manuscripts written by slaves, and by the padres and ambassadors sent to free them, it reveals a disturbing and forgotten chapter of history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.
`Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive. I has a genius for lively prose, and an appreciation for historical credibility` The Times
`It`s almost impossible to summarise [Nathaniel`s Nutmeg}, from which marvellous vivid stories spill out like swagsack booty` Guardian
Giles Milton is a writer and journalist, who specialises in the history of travel and exploration. His other books are: The Riddle and the Knight and the bestselling works Nathaniel`s Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth and Samurai William. He has been translated into sixteen languages worldwide.