Category: Captives

This week, we continue with the narrative of João de Carvalho Mascarenhas, the Portuguese soldier who was captured at sea[…]

Welcome to the beginning of a new year. The Chinese apparently have a saying that they trot out regularly for[…]

Last week, we looked at Reverend Ólafur Egilsson’s description of Algiers as it was in August-September, 1627. This week, we[…]

Quite a few descriptions of Algiers penned by European observers have come down to us from the seventeenth century. One[…]

This week we conclude the adventures of Robinson Crusoe. When we left him last week, he and his young Morisco[…]

This week we continue with the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, who, when we left him last week, was sailing down[…]

This week we continue with the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, who, when we left him last week, had just escaped[…]

This week we continue with the adventures of Robinson Crusoe who, when we left him last week, was enslaved in[…]

This week we continue with the adventures—or misadventures, rather—of Robinson Crusoe, for in this week’s extract he narrates his capture[…]

Most people have heard of Robinson Crusoe, the Englishman who was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island somewhere off the coast[…]