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Corsair by Severin, Tim is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Corsair about?
Corsair by Tim Severin is the first swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series. 1677. On a late-summer's evening, two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. Seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot as the Barbary corsairs raid his village, and he and his sister are snatched. Separated from each other, Hector is sold at auction in Algiers, and thrown into a bewildering world where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive. In North Africa, Hector befriends fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, and the two men convert to Islam to escape the horrors of the slave barracks - only to become victims of the deadly warfare of the Mediterranean. Serving aboard a Turkish ship, their vessel is sunk at sea and by a savage twist of fortune they are chained to the oar bench of a French galley. Desperate to find his sister, Hector finally stumbles on the chilling truth of her fate when he and Dan are shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco.
Who reads Corsair?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Severin, Tim
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishers UK
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780330516075
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (137 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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