In a saga that sprawls from Africa to Iceland, from the birth of their founder on the island of Lesbos to the French conquest of Algiers, this 1890 history chronicles the conflicts of the Barbary pirates with a host of enemies, including the Knights of Malta and the U.S. Marines.
About the author
Stanley Lane-Poole (1854-1931) researched Egyptian archaeology for the British Museum and was Professor of Arabic studies at Dublin University. His books include The Life of Edward William Lane (1877), Egypt (1881), Studies in a Mosque (1883), Social Life in Egypt (1884), The Story of the Moors in Spain (1886), Turkey (1888), Saladin (1898), and The Mohammedan Dynasties (1894), among others.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 342 ● ISBN 9781411454231 ● File size 4.0 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5863879 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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