THE OTTOMAN RECURVE BOW
The image at the top of this post is a digital reproduction of a seventeenth century painting depicting a sea[…]
Read moreThe image at the top of this post is a digital reproduction of a seventeenth century painting depicting a sea[…]
Read moreThis week we conclude the adventures of Robinson Crusoe. When we left him last week, he and his young Morisco[…]
Read moreThis week we continue with the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, who, when we left him last week, was sailing down[…]
Read moreThis week we continue with the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, who, when we left him last week, had just escaped[…]
Read moreThis week we continue with the adventures of Robinson Crusoe who, when we left him last week, was enslaved in[…]
Read moreThis week we continue with the adventures—or misadventures, rather—of Robinson Crusoe, for in this week’s extract he narrates his capture[…]
Read moreMost people have heard of Robinson Crusoe, the Englishman who was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island somewhere off the coast[…]
Read more(This post is a continuation of Father Pierre Dan and the 1634 Ransoming Expedition to Algiers – Part 1. If[…]
Read moreEuropeans captives enslaved in Algiers dreamed of one thing above all others: being ransomed. If you were a citizen of[…]
Read moreWe know about the details of the Barbary corsair raid on East Iceland in 1627 because of an Icelandic document[…]
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