White Gold by Giles Milton ISBN 13: 9780340794692

Hodder & Stoughton. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardback. Very Good.

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Hodder and Stoughton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0340794690 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Bit of a slant to spine. ; 161 X 243 X 34 millimeters; 352 pages .

Hodder & Stoughton, 2004 Book. As New. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. book is tight with no markings, great copy .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. Cloth, xiv, 316 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Their captors - Captain Ali Hakem and his network of fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on the whole of Christendom. France, Spain and Italy had been hit in repeated raids. England's coastal villages had also suffered a series of devastating attacks. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Sale in Morocco. Poked, prodded and put through their paces, they were sold at auction to the highest bidder. Pellow and his ship-mates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco, Moulay Ismail, who bragged that his white slaves enabled him to hold all of Europe… Read More

Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x9x1. 2nd edition. The jacket is a little shelf rubbed. It is protected in cellophane. The boards show little wear. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, clean. Tightly bound. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper edge. 316pp. A disturbing and forgotten chapter of history which gives an account about the Islamic slave traders who had declared war on Christendom. They carried out raids on Europe and thousands of Europeans had been snatched and made their way to the slave markets of North Africa. Thomas Pellow was taken in 1716 and was able to recount these events after he was eventually able to escape from twenty-three years of slavedom.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004 0340794690. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing with full number line. DW is price clipped, No annotations or inscriptions, Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; illustrated endpapers, xvii, (i), 316pp plus 16pp plates. Black boards with gilt title to spine. Internally clean tight and square, Overall an excellent copy. Includes index, notes and sources. The extraordinary and shocking story of Europeans captured by Islamic Barbary pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa. This is the fascinating story of a Cornish cabin boy, Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades who were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs in the summer of 1716. Resourceful, resilient and quick-witted, the young cabin boy was selected by Moroccan Sultan Moulay Ismail, and as a personal slave of the sultan would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour and daily terror of the imperial Moroccan court. .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. 1st. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first impression hardback, 2004, with unclipped jacket. In overall near-fine used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed to edges (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

-Hodder & Stoughton (2004)-. Third impression since 2004. Cloth. Near fine in dustjacket. Ask to see our other African Studies titles. White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves 9780340794692

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiv, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Subjects: Pellow, Thomas 1704-. Slavery Morocco History 18th century. Slavery Africa, North History 18th century. Pirates Europe History 18th century. Genre: History. Language: English.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+. Owner inscrptn to top corner of front free endpaper but no price-clip to dw/dj.Front of dw/dj with bright, crisp,clean,matt,b/w reproduction portrait of Moulay Ismail and A thumbnail colour pictorial illustration, with a wrap-around 4" wide Islamc geometric colour +gilt decoration of repeated,interlacing geometric forms - stars and multi-sided polygons design border to lower edges of dw/dj.Author's capitalised,black-lettered name,capitalised bright crisp,gilt-lettered part-title and a mix of brown,black and orange lettering to sub-title in a geometric-shaped white panel and author's grey-lettered credit for 'Nathaniel's Nutmeg' to top edge; spine/backstrip with capitalised,pale blue-lettered author name, capitalised gilt-lettered part-title as front's and publisher's black-lettered name to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with a white band with critics' black+ gilt lettered reviews and continuation of… Read More

Hodder & Stoughton, 2004-05-31. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!