Tim Severin

Corsair

Buch

1677. On a late-summer's evening, two ships lurk off the coast of south-west Ireland. Seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot as the Barbary corsairs raid his village, and he and his sister are snatched. Separated from each other, Hector is sold at auction in Algiers and thrown into a bewildering world where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive.In North Africa, Hector befriends fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, and the two men convert to Islam to escape the horrors of the slave barracks - only to become victims of the deadly warfare of the Mediterranean. Serving aboard a Turkish sh… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4472-7746-0
EAN: 9781447277460
Produktnummer: 17217505
Verlag: Pan MacMillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.7 cm 273 g
Auflage: New Edit/Cover
Reihenbandnummer: 1
Gewicht: 273

Über den Autor

Tim Severin, explorer, filmmaker and lecturer, has retraced the storied journeys of Saint Brendan the Navigator, Sindbad the Sailor, Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, Genghis Khan and Robinson Crusoe. His books about these expeditions are classics of exploration and travel.He made his historical-fiction debut with the hugely successful Viking series, followed by the Pirate and Saxon series.