A review by selfwinding
Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood

4.0

I’ve been working my way through what pirate audiobooks are available at my local library. The Caribbean pirates are the ones I’m most familiar with (and that tend to inform our pop culture references), so I was interested to check out another era of piracy. The main things I’m looking for in these books are details of how the pirates lived, what technology they used, and the terms, jargon, and slang that fills their world. (Also, let’s be honest, I’m looking for character names.)

This book was a little less about the pirate life than some of the others I’ve read, and a little more chronologically confusing, but it did contain some interesting stories and I liked expanding my piracy knowledge beyond the Caribbean.