{"product_id":"9781447277460","title":"Corsair","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Tim Severin\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHistorical adventure\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 12 March 2015 by PAN MACMILLAN (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Pirate' series.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 368 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 130 x 25mm | 416g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorsair by Tim Severin is the  first swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series. 1677. On a late-summer's evening, two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. Seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot as the Barbary corsairs raid his village, and he and his sister are snatched. Separated from each other, Hector is sold at auction in Algiers, and thrown into a bewildering world where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn North Africa, Hector befriends fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, and the two men convert to Islam to escape the horrors of the slave barracks - only to become victims of the deadly warfare of the Mediterranean. Serving aboard a Turkish ship, their vessel is sunk at sea and by a savage twist of fortune they are chained to the oar bench of a French galley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesperate to find his sister, Hector finally stumbles on the chilling truth of her fate when he and Dan are shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tim Severin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64837840077149,"sku":"9781447277460","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781447277460.jpg?v=1780053270","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781447277460","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}