April 2023 – Corsairs & Captives

THE ECONOMICS OF THE BARBARY CORSAIR ENTERPRISE

In Algiers in the seventeenth century, piracy was big business. Algerian corsairs brought back enormous amounts of booty and hundreds[…]

When you’re dealing with events that took place four or five hundred years ago, the exact dates when those events[…]

Something a little different this week… Living in the twenty-first century as we do, with access to Google Earth, Google[…]

Have you ever wondered how much it cost to outfit a ship for a pirate cruise in the seventeenth century?[…]