The history of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow,. in South-Barbary. Giving an account of his being taken by two Sallee Rovers, and carry'd a slave to Mequinez, at eleven years of age: his various adventures in that country for the space of twenty-three years: escape, and return home. In which is introduced, a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors; the astonishing tyranny and cruelty of their Emperors, and a relation of all those great revolutions and bloody wars which happen'd in the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, between the years 1720 and 1736. Together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms; miseries of the Christian slaves; and many other curious particulars. Written by himself.
Pellow, Thomas
Category
Books
Date
1751
Materials
Place of origin
Sherborne
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3217131
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition.. [4], 388 p. ; 8vo. Provenance: inscribed: Windham Felbrigg. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf, sewn onto three bands; gold fillets on boards; red-sprinkled edges. Small paper lozenge at head of spine.
Makers and roles
Pellow, Thomas