SIR KENELM DIGBY’S VISIT TO ALGIERS
Sir Kenelm Digby—an English nobleman of the early seventeenth century—led a complicated life. His father, Sir Everard Digby, had been[…]
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Month: September 2021
SIR KENELM DIGBY’S VISIT TO ALGIERS – PART 2
This week, we continue with Sir Kenelm Digby’s narrative of his time in Algiers in the late winter/early spring of[…]
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JANISSARIES IN ALGIERS – PART 1
More than any other North African city, perhaps, Algiers epitomized for Europeans the horrors of piracy and the slave trade.[…]
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