Category: Captives

This week, we continue with a series of excerpts from Enslaved: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on East[…]

Earlier this summer, my Icelandic colleague, Karl Smári Hreinsson, and I published a new book on the Tyrkjaránið (the Turkish[…]

In the early 1600s, a young French sailor named Nicolaus, from Havre de Grace (modern-day Le Havre, located on the[…]

There is a popular YouTube channel named Voices of the Past. It presents a series of videos that combine images[…]

Last week here in this blog, we finished a series of posts—taken from Stolen Lives, the book my Icelandic colleague,[…]

(This post is a continuation of Icelanders in Algiers – Part 1. If you haven’t done so already, it’s best[…]

(This post is a continuation of Icelanders in Algiers – Parts 1 & 2. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

(This post is a continuation of Icelanders in Algiers – Parts 1, 2, & 3. If you haven’t done so[…]

(This post is a continuation of Icelanders in Algiers – Parts 1, 2, 3, & 4. If you haven’t done[…]

(This post is a continuation of Icelanders in Algiers – Parts 1 – 5. If you haven’t done so already,[…]