thomp94's review
4.0
The Travels section and the other letters of people who experienced the Turkish Raid are interesting and sobering. What felt forced was the appendices' attempts to explain religious belief to the "modern secular reader." It almost felt like the authors who contributed to the additional 21st century material on the background of the world of 1627 believe that religious belief was a quaint and unenlightened characteristic of the people of that time. This seems to me an attempt to gain favor with modern secular readers at the expense of Christians who read in these Travels a theodicy and a sure dependence on the Lamb of God.
lauramolenaar's review
5.0
Such a cool travel book by an Icelandic priest kidnapped by Islamic pirated (led by Dutch pirates who converted to Islam) all the way to Algiers. Then he gets sent to Copenhagen for a ransom to get the Icelandic slaves back to freedom. He stops in Italy, Marseille and Enkhuizen and comments on all the different cultures. And when he finally arrives at the Danish court, he can't get them to give him any money because they're in a very expensive war! Poor guy! At least he has God.
kathrinpassig's review
4.0
Ólafur Egilsson wird 1627 zusammen mit seiner Frau, seinen Kindern und einigen Hundert weiteren Isländern von nordafrikanischen Piraten nach Algiers verschleppt und dort verkauft. In diesem Buch beschreibt er den Überfall, seinen kurzen Aufenthalt in Algiers und seinen langen Weg zurück nach Island (um Lösegeld herbeizuschaffen). Alles daran ist interessant. Auch die Kommentare der Herausgeber sind sehr gut.
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