THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE – PART 1
Most people have heard of Robinson Crusoe, the Englishman who was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island somewhere off the coast[…]
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[…]
Read moreThis week, we continue with the series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]
Read moreThis week, we continue with the series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]
Read moreThis week, we continue with a series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]
Read moreThis week, we continue with a series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]
Read moreThis week, we continue with a series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]
Read moreEarlier this summer, my Icelandic colleague, Karl Smári Hreinsson, and I published a new book on the Tyrkjaránið (the Turkish[…]
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