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Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century

Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean Hardcover - 2010

by Adrian Tinniswood

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Jonathan Cape, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. A clean, well-kept copy, unmarked pages, slight wear to jacket edges. `Tinniswood is a masterly writer of history with a gift for slamming his readers into the thick of the action.' -- Literary Review 368 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780224085267. Inventory No: dscf8776. . 9780224085267
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ADRIAN TINNISWOOD is a historian and educationalist. He lectures regularly in Britain and the US, and was for many years consultant to the National Trust on heritage education. He is the author of eleven books of social and architectural history including His Invention So Fertile, his acclaimed biography of Sir Christopher Wren. His most recent book, The Verneys, was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.


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"This rollicking book unpicks a confusion of names, dates and places to produce a fascinating history of seabourne conflict."
--Daily Telegraph

"Adrian Tinniswood is a masterly writer of history with a gift for slamming his readers into the thick of the action."
--Literary Review



From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the author

ADRIAN TINNISWOOD is a historian and educationalist. He lectures regularly in Britain and the US, and was for many years consultant to the National Trust on heritage education. He is the author of eleven books of social and architectural history including His Invention So Fertile, his acclaimed biography of Sir Christopher Wren. His most recent book, The Verneys, was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.

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