White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves
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 Milton's story could scarcely be more action-packed, and its setting and subsidiary characters are as fantastic as its events. The Sunday Times 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 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 Giles Milton... has crafted an inspiration for those of us who believe that history can be exciting and entertaining The Times