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The Algerine captive.

Author: Royall Tyler; Don Lewis Cook
Publisher: New Haven, Conn., College & University Press [©1970]
Series: The Masterworks of literature series
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Fictionalized account of a period in 18th century Algerian and American history when pirates from the Barbary coast pillaged ships for passengers and cargo. The passengers were enslaved for years at a time and their memoirs became the background for romance novels of that same time period.
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Genre/Form: Picaresque literature
Adventure fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Royall Tyler; Don Lewis Cook
OCLC Number: 137782
Description: 224 p. 21 cm.
Series Title: The Masterworks of literature series
Responsibility: Edited for the modern reader by Don L. Cook.

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Fictionalized account of a period in 18th century Algerian and American history when pirates from the Barbary coast pillaged ships for passengers and cargo. The passengers were enslaved for years at a time and their memoirs became the background for romance novels of that same time period.

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