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.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.
