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| Subtitle | Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean |
| First Written | 2010 |
| Genre | History |
| Origin | US |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
| My Copy | library hardback |
| First Read | January 13, 2024 |
Pirates of Barbary
Off the Isles of Scilly, about thirty miles from the southwest tip of Cornwall, they sighted a French merchant ship of seventy tons, fully laden and bound for Ireland. (Originally related to the number of tun casks of wine that a merchant ship could carry, tonnage refers to the internal volume of a vessel rather than its weight.)
Quoted on January 13, 2024