Adrian Tinniswood
Thursday 25th March 2010
Venue
The Bookshop, Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
The Bookshop, Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
Start Time
8pm
8pm
In Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in 17th-century Mediterranean, Adrian Tinniswood brings to life the fascinating world of the European renegades and Islamic sea-rovers who stalked the Mediterranean throughout the seventeenth century. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, such as the private letters of pirates and their victims, furious royal proclamations and recent Islamic accounts, Tinniswood paints a remarkable picture of a wild and exotic people.