White Gold is an engrossing, expertly told story. “Milton has produced a disturbing account of the barbaric splendor of the imperial Moroccan court, which he brings to life with considerable panache. genuine feel of what it was like to be a European slave in North Africa.” - Los Angeles Times “Milton's story could scarcely be more action packed, and its setting and subsidiary characters are as fantastic as its events.” - The Sunday Times (London) a fun and fanciful story from a little-known chapter in history.” - The Washington Post Book World customarily elegant prose.” - Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, Giles Milton's White Gold is a fascinating glimpse at a time long forgotten by history. 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. White gold : the extraordinary story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's one million white slaves by Milton, Giles Publication date 2004 Topics Pellow, Thomas, b. 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." -Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe
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