Thomas Pellow edited with an introduction and notes by Dr Ro...

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Thomas Pellow edited with an introduction and notes by Dr Robert Brown. 'The Adventures of Thomas Pellow of Penryn, Mariner. Three and Twenty Years in Captivity Among the Moors,' first edition, half leather with gilt compartmentalized spine, frontis, a very good copy, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1890. Striking captivity and white slavery narrative by a Cornish youth captured at sea by Sallee pirates from Morocco in 1716 and then the 23 years he then spent in Morocco as a slave soldier and attendant to the family of Sultan Moulay Ismail.