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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
Giles Milton
Prose: non-fiction, History
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John Murray
- Paperback Jun 9, 2005 | 9780340794708 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 12, 2012 | 9781444717723 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jun 29, 2006 | 9781844563623 | RRP $13.99 Buy Now
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John Murray
- Paperback Jun 9, 2005 | 9780340794708 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 12, 2012 | 9781444717723 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jun 29, 2006 | 9781844563623 | RRP $13.99 Buy Now
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John Murray
- Paperback Jun 9, 2005 | 9780340794708 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 12, 2012 | 9781444717723 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jun 29, 2006 | 9781844563623 | RRP $13.99 Buy Now
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Our Number One name in popular history is back with an explosive new paperback, a sensational new cover look and a 'fiction' style marketing campaign that will strike gold in summer 2005.
This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale.
Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of he imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime.
Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.
Praise for White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
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Giles Milton has a gift for searching out odd and forgotten corners of history and turning them into bestselling books... this is not a dry history, but a full-blooded narrative closer in style to a historical novel than to an academic study. - William Palmer Literary Review
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Milton's story could scarcely be more action-packed, and its setting and subsidiary characters are as fantastic as its events. - The Sunday Times
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An extraordinary story which few people will be at all familiar with... an exciting and sensational account of a really swash-buckling historical episode - Philip Hensher, Spectator
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Giles Milton's narrative races along as he stitches together a story of heroism, sacrifice and misplaced zeal, painstakingly researched from contemporary writing and records - Observer
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Giles Milton... has crafted an inspiration for those of us who believe that history can be exciting and entertaining - The Times
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Giles Milton
Giles Milton is a writer and historian. He is the bestselling author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth, The Riddle and the Knight, White Gold, Samurai William, Paradise Lost and, most recently, Wolfram. He has also written two novels and three children's books, two of them illustrated by his wife Alexandra. He lives in South London.
Find out more about Giles and his books on his website, www.gilesmilton.com, and Wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Milton, follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/survivehistory and like him on Facebook at facebook.com/pages/Giles-Milton-Writer/121068034610842.
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