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Pirates Of Barbary [Kindle Edition]

Adrian Tinniswood (Author)

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

'This rollicking book unpicks a confusion of names, dates and places to produce a fascinating history of seaborne conflict.' --Telegrpah: Review

'Tinniswood narrates this story with brio and bravura, displaying an excellent eye for the theatrical detail and juicy episode.'
--BBC History Magazine

"Tinniswood's absorbing book is packed with bad characters, big fights and breathless chases." --Daily Mail

`skilfully evokes the dread that corsairs aroused.'
-- FT

Tinniswood's artful blend of narrative and analysis brings the pirates' society to life. -- Spectator, Books, Blair Worden

`North African pirates were the scourge of the 17th century, and plundered as far as Cornwall. Tinniswood tells their story with verve' --The Telegraph

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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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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 2218 KB
Print Length: 370 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0099523868
Publisher: Vintage Digital (31 May 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B004VS7D3E
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #81,087 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Well Written, well researched - and a huge amount of fun 20 Mar 2010

By Sophie Hill

Format: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.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

Excellent Fun 18 Mar 2010

By North London Reader

Format: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.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

You can never have enough pirate books 12 April 2010

By Sheenagh Pugh VINE™ VOICE

Format: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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Yo-ho-ho! But it wasn't all fun

The 17th Century neatly bookends the story of piracy in the Mediterranean. For a few decades the protagonists struggle on but in reality by the end of Adrian Tinniswood's... Read more

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