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It's easy to think of piracy as an enchanting life-style over - if not for today's scary headlines of robbery and kidnapping on the high seas. Pirates have been around since the technology of commerce itself, nevertheless they come to the zenith of these power through the 1600s,when the Mediterranean was the crossroads of the world and pirates were the scourge of European countries and the glory of Islam. They attacked ships, enslaved crews, plundered cargoes, enraged governments, and swayed empires, wreaking havoc from Gibraltar to the Holy Land and beyond. Historian and publisher Adrian Tinniswood brings alive this powerful chapter ever sold, in which clashes between pirates of the East (Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli) and governments of the Western world (Great britain, France, Spain, and Venice) grew progressively more powerful and dangerous. In vivid information, Tinniswood recounts the brutal challenges, glorious triumphs, and long lasting personalities of the pirates of the Barbary Coastline, and exactly how their maneuverings between your Muslim empires and Religious Europe reveal the religious and moral fights that still trend today. As Tinniswood records in Pirates of Barbary, "Pirates are history." On this fascinating and engaging book, he unveils that the history of piracy is also the history that formed our modern world.
