The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson : The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627
-- The Travels The TravelsThe Travels includes not only Reverend Olafur's first-person narrative but also a collection of contemporary letters describing both the events of the raid itself and the conditions under which the enslaved Icelanders lived. Also included are appendices containing background information on the cities of Algiers and Salé in the seventeenth century, on Iceland in the seventeenth century, on the manuscripts accessed for the translation, and on the book's early modern European context.
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282 pages - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : The Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
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