Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships

A seventeenth-century minister tells his story of abduction by pirates, and a solo journey from Algiers to Copenhagen, in this remarkable historical text. In su

French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.

Describes in detail how privateers, buccaneers, and pirates plied their trade during the piracy's "golden age."