Description: Our Number One name in popular history is back with an explosive new paperback, a sensational new cover look and a 'fiction' style marketing campaign that will strike gold in summer 2005 This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of he imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.
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EAN: 9780340794708
UPC: 9780340794708
ISBN: 9780340794708
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Book Title: White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pell
Item Length: 19.8 cm
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: White Gold: the Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
Publisher: John Murray Press
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: History
Item Height: 198 mm
Item Weight: 256 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Giles Milton
Item Width: 131 mm
Format: Paperback
