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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
by Giles Milton
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374289352
- ISBN 13
- 9780374289355
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£31.79£22.25
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About This Item
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. 2005. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight bumping to head, tail, and lower tips. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); light bumping to head, tail, and tips. Speckled tan paper over boards with beige overlay on the spine; bright gilt lettering on the spine. 316 pp 8vo. This book is the remarkable true story of white European slaves in eighteenth-century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco. The book is based on the life of Thomas Pellow, who in 1716 was captured by Barbary corsairs when his ship was captured at sea. He and his shipmates were taken to Morocco where Pellow was selected as personal slave to the sultan of Morocco and remained so for the next 23 years. His story along with unpublished letters an manuscripts written by slaves makes up this story of a disturbing and long-forgotten chapter of history. A clean very presentable copy
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014181
- Title
- White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
- Author
- Giles Milton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374289352
- ISBN 13
- 9780374289355
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- slavery, white slavery, Barbary Pirates, Barbary slavers, Sultan of Morocco, Sultan of Tunis, Sultan of Algeria, slave markets, Ali Hakem, Islamic slave traders, Moulay Ismail, Thomas Pellow,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; African Matters;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Price Clipped
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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