by Tim Severin · Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405088893
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«Corsair» is the historical adventure novel by Tim Severin, published by Macmillan in paperback (347 pages, in English).
Summer 1677: Barbary corsairs raid the Irish coast and capture Hector Lynch and his sister Elizabeth. Sold in the Algiers market, Hector allies with Dan, a Miskito Indian; both survive slavery, convert to Islam, and end up on a Turkish ship. After a shipwreck in Morocco, Hector continues searching for his sister.
First installment of the Hector Lynch adventure series, originally published in 2007 and also known as the Pirate series.
For readers of historical and maritime adventure fiction, with an interest in pirates, corsairs, and the seventeenth-century Mediterranean.
Timothy Severin was a British explorer, historian, and writer. Severin was noted for his work in retracing the legendary journeys of historical figures. Severin was awarded both the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He received the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for his 1982 book The Sindbad Voyage.
