THE BARBARY CORSAIR RAID ON EAST ICELAND
Earlier this summer, my Icelandic colleague, Karl Smári Hreinsson, and I published a new book on the Tyrkjaránið (the Turkish[…]
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Month: July 2022
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Back in 2016, my Icelandic colleague, Karl Smári Hreinsson, and I published The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson: The Story[…]
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OF PIRACY, PROFIT, AND PRUDENCE — PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Of Piracy, Profit, and Prudence — Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]
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OF PIRACY, PROFIT, AND PRUDENCE — PART 1
In its heyday as a corsair capital, the city of Algiers had one major economic driver: piracy. Legally speaking, Algerian[…]
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NICOLAUS THE UNLUCKY
In the early 1600s, a young French sailor named Nicolaus, from Havre de Grace (modern-day Le Havre, located on the[…]
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