Books by Godfrey Fisher
“Fisher’s book is a wonderful corrective to the prejudice we have about the Barbary Coast pirates. It almost goes too far. It suggests that the West has approached the idea of North African pirates with a prejudiced eye, because they are Islamic. Fisher says: why don’t we look at how the West related to North Africa and particularly the four Barbary states. These were Morocco and the three Ottoman states of North Africa – Algiers, Tunisia and what we would call Libya.” Read more...
Adrian Tinniswood, Historian
Interviews where books by Godfrey Fisher were recommended
The best books on Pirates, recommended by Adrian Tinniswood
People see in pirates what they want to see, says historian and author Adrian Tinniswood. He recommends five fascinating books about pirates.
