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A seventeenth-century minister tells his story of abduction by pirates, and a solo journey from Algiers to Copenhagen, i

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The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627
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In 1842 at York Factory, the English-born missionary James Evans built a lightweight tin canoe that glittered and shone

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The North African slave markets traded in European slaves that were acquired by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships

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The wars against the Barbary pirates not only signaled the determination of the United States to throw off its tributary

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From the critically acclaimed author whom The Wall Street Journal called "a first-class historian," here is a

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