{"product_id":"white-gold-the-extraordinary-story-of-thomas-pellow-and-islams-one-million-white-slaves-9781250778239","title":"White Gold","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 Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, Giles Milton's \u003ci\u003eWhite Gold\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating glimpse at a time long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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiles Milton \u003c\/b\u003eis the internationally bestselling author of over ten works of narrative history published in twenty-five languages, including \u003ci\u003eSoldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSamurai William\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eChurchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eNathaniel's Nutmeg\u003c\/i\u003e, serialized by the BBC. He lives in London and Burgundy.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646983278866,"sku":"9781250778239","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_887737e2-31de-4069-8080-f59678893a3a.jpg?v=1733191548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-gold-the-extraordinary-story-of-thomas-pellow-and-islams-one-million-white-slaves-9781250778239","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}