English Corsairs on the Barbary Coast (by Christopher Lloyd)

• 1981 edition, 178 pages
• Published by Collins, London
• Hardcover with dust jacket, red boards
• Very good condition, minor fading to dust jacket, small owners Ex Libris stamp first page.

Illustrated. In the Mediterranean world of the seventeenth century the corsair was the bank robber, the hit man, the kidnapper, who threatened every peaceable merchant. And among the worst and most dangerous of them were those who had teken with them the secrets of maritime supremacy and shared them with their Moslem masters. But thanks to the activities of European renegades such as the Englishman Captain Ward and the Fleming Simon Danser the piratical desperadoes of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli were taught to build and sail and fight the craft that had opened up the world.