The travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson : the story of the Barbary Corsair raid on Iceland in 1627 /

The travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson : the story of the Barbary Corsair raid on Iceland in 1627 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Ólafur Egilsson, 1564-1639, author.
Uniform title:Reisubók séra Ólafs Egilssonar. English
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2016]
Description:xxxv, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Ólafur Egilsson, -- 1564-1639 -- Captivity, 1627.
Ólafur Egilsson, -- 1564-1639 -- Travel.
Ólafur Egilsson, -- 1564-1639.
Lutheran Church -- Iceland -- Clergy -- Biography.
Pirates -- Africa, North -- History -- 17th century.
Slavery -- Africa, North -- History -- 17th century.
Captivity.
Lutheran Church -- Clergy.
Manners and customs.
Pirates.
Slavery.
Travel.
Westman Islands (Iceland) -- History -- 17th century.
Algiers (Algeria) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
Livorno (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
Europe -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Africa, North.
Algeria -- Algiers.
Europe.
Iceland.
Iceland -- Westman Islands.
Italy -- Livorno.
Biography.
Early works.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10885841
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Other authors / contributors:Karl Smári Hreinsson, editor, translator.
Nichols, Adam, 1952- editor, translator.
ISBN:9780813228693
0813228697
Notes:"Original English edition, 2008"--Title page verso.
"Translation of a 17th-century narrative written by a Lutheran pastor from Iceland who was captured by Turkish pirates, taken to North Africa, and then released and managed to make his way back across Europe to Iceland. His story, collected here with letters written by his fellow captives, gives intimate details of life, and relations between Christianity and Islam, in that period"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.

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