White Gold : The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves (Large type / large print ed)

In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-two of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs.

Their captors - fanatical Islamic slave traders - had declared war on the whole of Christendom.

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 to be sold to the highest bidder. "White Gold" is an extraordinary and shocking story.

Drawn from unpublished letters and manuscripts written by slaves, and by the padres and ambassadors sent to free them, it reveals a disturbing and forgotten chapter of history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.