STOLEN LIVES: THE BARBARY CORSAIR RAID ON HEIMAEY – PART 3
This week, we continue with another excerpt from Stolen Lives: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Heimaey in[…]
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This week, we continue with another excerpt from Stolen Lives: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Heimaey in[…]
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This week, we continue with another excerpt from Stolen Lives: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Heimaey in[…]
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A quick reminder: In the summer of 1627, two groups of Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, one group from Salé, one[…]
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This week, we conclude the series of excerpts from Northern Captives: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Grindavík[…]
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This week, we continue with the excerpt from Northern Captives: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Grindavík in[…]
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In the summer of 1627, two groups of Barbary corsairs raided Iceland. My Icelandic colleague, Karl Smári Hreinsson, and I[…]
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On June 20, 1627, in the pale light of an early northern summer morning, a lone ship approached the Grindavík[…]
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Barbary corsairs weren’t just pirates. They were part of a larger enterprise. There was a religious element to that enterprise:[…]
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Last week, we looked at how complicated the financial process could be when Europeans tried to pay ransoms for their[…]
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Last week, we looked at the complications of seventeenth century currency. This week, we look at how those complications played[…]
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