The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War

by Des Ekin

Book Overview

WINNER of the Journal of American Revolution's Book of the Year for 2023

In 1785, just a few years after U.S. Independence, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carried as prisoner to the maverick North African statelet of Algiers, where he is held as a political hostage along with hundreds of other seamen captured on the open seas. The piratical corsairs of Algiers have decided, without any warning, to exploit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633888630
• ISBN13: 9781633888630
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"