THE BARBARY CORSAIR RAID ON GRINDAVÍK IN 1627 – PART 8
(This post is a continuation of The Barbary Corsair Raid on Grindavík in 1627 – Parts 1 – 7. If[…]
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Author: Adam Nichols
I'm an associate professor with the University of Maryland, in the U.S. I spent twenty years teaching for the University of Maryland’s European division, in England, Scotland, Norway, Iceland, and Germany, and downrange on military installations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. I've also lived and worked in Australia, China, and Canada. I presently live in the U.S.
SPECIAL 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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MURAD REIS —THE COMMANDER OF THE SALÉ CORSAIRS
The commander of the Salé corsairs who raided southeast Iceland in the summer of 1627 was a Dutch renegade whose[…]
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THE BARBARY CORSAIR RAIDS ON ICELAND IN 1627
Back in the summer of 1627, two lots of Barbary corsairs from North Africa raided Iceland. One group came from[…]
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SIR KENELM DIGBY’S VISIT TO ALGIERS
Sir Kenelm Digby—an English nobleman of the early seventeenth century—led a complicated life. His father, Sir Everard Digby, had been[…]
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SIR KENELM DIGBY’S VISIT TO ALGIERS – PART 2
This week, we continue with Sir Kenelm Digby’s narrative of his time in Algiers in the late winter/early spring of[…]
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JANISSARIES IN ALGIERS – PART 1
More than any other North African city, perhaps, Algiers epitomized for Europeans the horrors of piracy and the slave trade.[…]
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JANISSARIES IN ALGIERS – PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Janissaries in Algiers – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best[…]
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JANISSARIES IN ALGIERS – PART 3
(This post is a continuation of Janissaries in Algiers – Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done so already,[…]
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JANISSARIES IN ALGIERS – PART 4
(This post is a continuation of Janissaries in Algiers – Parts 1, 2, 3. If you haven’t done so already,[…]
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