The Paladin (The Whiteblade Saga, Book One)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Nichols, Adam

Fantasy

Millennium Books

From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing enormous amounts of booty and tens of thousands of captives, hauling them back to the slave markets in their home ports and auctioning them off to the highest bidder.The conflict between these Barbary corsairs and Europe was military, but not just that; religious, but not just that; social and economic, but not just that either. Above all, it was a human conflict, with all the confusion, blurred lines, and inherent messiness of such things, and the narratives it generated were more complicated than simple swashbuckling pirate tales.Corsairs & Captives presents a collection of these narratives, all based directly on primary-source documents, a number of which are translated into English for the first time. They include biographies of four renegade corsair captains (Europeans who converted to Islam and became corsairs), descriptions of sea battles by those who were there, accounts of ransomed captives, the report of a French Trinitarian friar who led a ransoming expedition to Algiers, even the transcript of a trial held by the Canary Islands chapter of the (in)famous Spanish Inquisition.These narratives bring to life a world much rougher than our own but no less complicated, in which people with the ordinary human fears and aspirations we are familiar with today struggled to endure. It is not the world most people expect when they think of Barbary corsairs. It is more interesting than that.

Corsairs and Captives: Narratives from the Age of the Barbary Pirates: Narratives from the Age of the Barbary Pirates

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Pen and Sword History

The War of the Lords Veil

Orion Publishing Co

The savage Veil army sweeps through the northern territories, overrunning homesteads and villages, taking all they please. But despite the spirit-helmed soldiers, a ragged band of rebels is on the rise. For Tai and Crane, the Dreamwalker, are determined not to give in.

The War Of The Lords Veil

Millennium Orion Publishing Group

The Pathless Way &amp; The War on the Lords Veil

The Pathless Way

Young Pawli has the true Gift, he is certain sure of it. But his uncle Brynmaur will not listen, preferring to spend his days smoking starweed, prey to visions. And then Khurdis Blackeye, the self-proclaimed sorcerer of the Dark Tower, tries to bring all of the Three Valleys under his yoke, and conjures something dreadful into the world. Pawli and Brynmaur find themselves facing this threat alone, until the advent of Roe, a young wanderer who turns out to be more than anyone thinks. Through fantastical worlds they must travel, and face uncanny foes in their own mountain forests, to confront an enemy both ancient and terrible. The Curer is the final volume of The Whiteblade Saga, the chronicles of Elinor Whiteblade and the shining sword that is both her treasure and her bane.

The Curer (The Whiteblade Saga, Book 3)

Orion Publishing

Die Dämonen von Miradore : Roman

Goldmann

The book's forward explains that in the summer of 1627, pirates from the north coast of Africa raided Iceland, taking close to four hundred captives away into slavery. Among those taken was the Reverend Ólafur Egilsson, a Lutheran Minister in his sixties. This book is Reverend Ólafur's chronicle of the experience. The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson, known in Iceland as Reisubók Séra Ólafs Egilssonar, is a well-known classic of seventeenth century Icelandic literature, but it has never before been translated into English. It is one of the earliest travel books by a northern, post-Reformation European writer describing both Islamic and Christian civilization in the seventeenth century and tells a powerful, altogether remarkable story. The Reisubók tells the story of all this and more, for Reverend Ólafur negotiated a ransom agreement with his captors and then travelled alone from North Africa across Europe to Denmark in an attempt to raise the money required to free his family. The volume includes not only the full text of the Reisubók itself but also a series of letters, either written by Icelandic captives to their relatives back in Iceland or based on eyewitness accounts of the raid. These letters describe, in sometimes poignant and vivid detail, both the events of the Tyrkjaránið and the conditions in North Africa under which the enslaved Icelanders lived.

The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson

Hreinsson, Karl Smari

Fjolvi

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