The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates by Des Ekin

The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates

Des Ekin

488 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative sad slow-paced
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In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bo...

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