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Corsair Tim Severin

Corsair By Tim Severin

Corsair by Tim Severin


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Condition - Very Good
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SeriesPirate

Summary

A voyage back to the seventeenth century and life on dangerous seas. In Tim Severin's first Pirate adventure, Corsair, Hector Lynch experiences slavery and warfare while searching for his sister.

Corsair Summary

Corsair by Tim Severin

Corsair by Tim Severin is the first swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series.

1677. On a late-summer's evening, two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. Seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot as the Barbary corsairs raid his village, and he and his sister are snatched. Separated from each other, Hector is sold at auction in Algiers, and thrown into a bewildering world where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive.

In North Africa, Hector befriends fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, and the two men convert to Islam to escape the horrors of the slave barracks - only to become victims of the deadly warfare of the Mediterranean. Serving aboard a Turkish ship, their vessel is sunk at sea and by a savage twist of fortune they are chained to the oar bench of a French galley.

Desperate to find his sister, Hector finally stumbles on the chilling truth of her fate when he and Dan are shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco.

About Tim Severin

Tim Severin, explorer, filmmaker and lecturer, has retraced the storied journeys of Saint Brendan the Navigator, Sindbad the Sailor, Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, Genghis Khan and Robinson Crusoe. His books about these expeditions are classics of exploration and travel.

He made his historical-fiction debut with the hugely successful Viking series, followed by the Pirate and Saxon series.

Additional information

GOR006588384
9781447277460
1447277465
Corsair by Tim Severin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
2015-03-12
368
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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