
White Gold
The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
Giles Milton(Author)
Picador USA (Publisher)
Published on 9. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-250-77823-9 (ISBN)
Description
Giles Milton's White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.
"An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose." --Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe
In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco. Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, Giles Milton's White Gold is a fascinating glimpse at a time long forgotten by history.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-250-77823-9 (9781250778239)
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Person
Giles Milton is the million-copy internationally bestselling author of more than a dozen works of narrative history. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is also the writer and narrator of the acclaimed podcast series Ministry of Secrets. He lives in London.