Pellow's purchaser happened to be the tyrannical sultan of Morroco, Moulay Ismail, a man committed to building a vast imperial pleasure palace of unsurpassable splendour built entirely by Christian slave labour.
His latest literary adventure, White Gold, is the story of Thomas Pellow, a Cornish cabin boy who was captured at sea by a group of fanatical Islamic slave tradersthe Barbary corsairs, taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Salè in Morocco and sold to the highest bidder. White Gold is an engrossing, expertly told story.Writer and journalist Giles Milton specializes in the history of travel and exploration. “Milton has produced a disturbing account of the barbaric splendor of the imperial Moroccan court, which he brings to life with considerable panache. genuine feel of what it was like to be a European slave in North Africa.” - Los Angeles Times “Milton's story could scarcely be more action packed, and its setting and subsidiary characters are as fantastic as its events.” - The Sunday Times (London) a fun and fanciful story from a little-known chapter in history.” - The Washington Post Book World customarily elegant prose.” - Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe Drawn from the unpublished letters and manuscripts of Pellow and survivors like him, Giles Milton's White Gold is a fascinating glimpse at a time long forgotten by history.
Pellow and his shipmates were bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco. Their captors-Ali Hakem and his network of Islamic slave traders-had declared war on the whole of Christendom. In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. customarily elegant prose." -Simon Winchester, The Boston Globe
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