The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs, published in 1890 in the Story of the Nations series, is Stanley Lane-Poole's history of the pirate states of the North African coast, written with Lieutenant J. D. Jerrold Kelley of the United States Navy. It tells how the Barbarossa brothers and their successors made Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli the bases of a Muslim naval power that raided the coasts of Christian Europe for three centuries. Lane-Poole describes the sea fights with Spain and the Knights of Malta, life as a galley slave and the redemption of captives, and the long decline that ended with the American war against Tripoli, the bombardment of Algiers and the French conquest. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Yes. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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What kind of book is The Story of the Barbary Corsairs?
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole is filed under "History" in the Vinteuil library.
