| Author: | E. Hamilton Currey | ISBN: | 1230000342056 |
| Publisher: | True North | Publication: | April 6, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | E. Hamilton Currey |
| ISBN: | 1230000342056 |
| Publisher: | True North |
| Publication: | April 6, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Sea-wolves of the sixteenth century we are dealing with the very aristocrats of the profession. Circumstances over which they had no control flung the Moslem population of Southern Spain on to the shores of Northern Africa: to revenge themselves upon the Christian foe by whom this expropriation had been accomplished was natural to a warrior race; and those who heretofore had been land-folk pure and simple took to piracy as a means of livelihood.
Sea-wolves of the sixteenth century we are dealing with the very aristocrats of the profession. Circumstances over which they had no control flung the Moslem population of Southern Spain on to the shores of Northern Africa: to revenge themselves upon the Christian foe by whom this expropriation had been accomplished was natural to a warrior race; and those who heretofore had been land-folk pure and simple took to piracy as a means of livelihood.
