An elegantly discursive retelling .
Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of.
Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco.
Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. --Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. customarily elegant prose. . .
An elegantly discursive retelling