{"product_id":"white-gold-giles-milton-9781250778239","title":"White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiles Milton's \u003ci\u003eWhite Gold \u003c\/i\u003etells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose.\" --Simon Winchester, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders--had declared war on the whole of Christendom. Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco. Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, Giles Milton's \u003ci\u003eWhite Gold\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating glimpse at a time long forgotten by history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giles Milton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250778239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250778239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Giles Milton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043720196351,"sku":"9781250778239","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95d0bfc7-2061-49b0-8010-eb668e8a84ff.jpg?v=1684968763","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/white-gold-giles-milton-9781250778239","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}