Publisher's Synopsis
The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves. Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, litle known chapter of history. This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans enslaved by North African barbarians into a life of harsh servitude. Ignored by their own governments, very few lived to tell the tale. Giles Milton has written a gripping and brilliantly realised and researched account of this particular time in history, using the first-hand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow.