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`The author's style is an absolute joy and his stories of attacks, based in eyewitness accounts, make rather more thrilling than many fictional thrillers are.' `He also proves an even-handed judge. While there's no attempt to whitewash the privateers here, there are explanations of what caused men to turn their hand to conquering the seas' --The Bookbag
`This well-researched history of piracy presents brutal seafaring extortionists instead of eye-patched rascals' --The Telegraph
`Tinniswood unearths colourful characters and historical oddities while pointing out that the West's inability to deal with Somali pirates show how little we've learned in 400 years' --Herald
`meticulously researched history of unrestrained murder, robbery and kidnapping on the high seas... This is a brisk, entertaining story, with royal proclamations, letters, maps and lavishness illuminating Tinniswood's vivid tales.' --The Irish Times Weekend Review
`[he] has unearthed many colourful characters and historical oddities and uses eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale' --Chard & Ilminster News
`This well-researched history of piracy presents brutal seafaring extortionists instead of eye-patched rascals' --The Telegraph
`Tinniswood unearths colourful characters and historical oddities while pointing out that the West's inability to deal with Somali pirates show how little we've learned in 400 years' --Herald
`meticulously researched history of unrestrained murder, robbery and kidnapping on the high seas... This is a brisk, entertaining story, with royal proclamations, letters, maps and lavishness illuminating Tinniswood's vivid tales.' --The Irish Times Weekend Review
`[he] has unearthed many colourful characters and historical oddities and uses eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale' --Chard & Ilminster News
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The incredible, action-packed secret history of Barbary Coast piracy in the 17th century, by the author of the acclaimed The Verneys
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Well Written, well researched - and a huge amount of fun,
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This review is from: Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Well written, well researched - and a huge amount of fun. Pirates of Barbary is filled with colourful historical detail, charismatic anti-heroes and a pointed, but not over done, resonance between the Pirates of Barbary then and now. Absolutely loved it.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Fun,
This review is from: Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Having enjoyed Adrian Tinniswood's The Verneys so much I thought I'd read this too. And I'm glad I did. Pirates of Barbary is written in pacey, well defined chapters - charting different eras, themes and episodes.This book is a must for anyone interested in the 17th century and maritime history, albeit one doesn't need to be solely interested in such things to enjoy the benefits of this book. Adrian Tinniswood is slowly but surely creating a canon of scholarly but popular history books on the 17th century. Although I still think The Verneys is his best book, Pirates of Barbary is comfortably the most fun.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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You can never have enough pirate books,
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This review is from: Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean (Hardcover)
I thought I had enough pirate books, till I saw this one specifically dealing with the Barbary pirates of Algiers, Tripoli etc. It's well researched and scholarly but also written in a delightfully lively style - see this sardonic little piece on everyone's dream job - not...:"The governorship of Tangier was not a passport to success. The Earl of Peterborough was recalled to England after 11 months, amidst allegations of corruption and incompetence. His successor, the Earl of Teviot, managed a year in office before being killed in a Moorish ambush. During a bout of diarrhoea the Earl of Middleton, who took up office in 1668, got up in the middle of the night, fell over his sleeping manservant and broke his arm; he died two days later. The Earl of Inchiquin was recalled in disgrace after allowing the Moors to overrun the outer defences, though he managed to calm the King's anger by giving him a pair of ostriches. The Earl of Ossory fell into a fit of depression on hearing of his appointment as governor and succumbed to a fever before he could even leave England." Always keep a pair of ostriches handy. This book is full of unforgettable characters, rich historical ironies, absorbing personal stories and just sheer style, both Tinniswood's and that of his (anti-)heroes. Did you know Samuel Pepys, at very short notice, was ordered to go to Tangier to help supervise its evacuation and destruction? Or that the French mortar-bombed Algiers, in the teeth of a threat, which was carried out, to blow an elderly French priest from a cannon? My own favourite is the harassed Thomas Baker, neglected but kindly English consul in Tripoli, but he's only one in a bewildering tapestry, at a time and cosmopolitan place where people called Hassan Rais, who made a living by importing Christian slaves, frequently turned out to be someone called Rowley from Bristol. You can never have enough pirate books.
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