by Bartolomé Bennassar · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498152258
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«El galeote de Argel» is the historical novel by Bartolomé Bennassar, published by Diario El País, S.A. in paperback (142 pages, in Spanish).
François Cocardon, a native of Six-Fours, recalls at sixty-four a life of travels, captivities and escapes. At fourteen, while sailing to Alicante with his father, he was captured by Algerian pirates; over time he became a prosperous pirate called Mustafá de Six-Fours who ravaged the coasts of Christian kingdoms and attacked ships in the Mediterranean.
The novel was originally published in 1995 as «Les tribulations de Mustafa des Six-Fours».
For those seeking a historical novel of piracy and captivity in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean.
Bartolomé Bennassar was a French historian and writer. He specialized in Spanish and Latin American history.
