Barbary corsairs/swords

RhysMichael · 22nd July 2008, 11:16 PM

I don't have an answer but I may be able to point you towards somewhere that does. The National Maritime Museum in London has a huge collection of documents on pirates and did a 3 year exhibition on it called "Pirates Fact and Fiction" from 1993 to I think 1995
here is thier pirate research page
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.632

and for africa this may help from the same place

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/pri...y=&startrow=85

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Author: Stanley Lane-Poole Lieut. J. D. Jerrold Kelley 1890 is here
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22169...-h/22169-h.htm

and more on pirates from Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Pirate...c._(Bookshelf)

22nd July 2008, 11:16 PM	#8
RhysMichael Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 520	I don't have an answer but I may be able to point you towards somewhere that does. The National Maritime Museum in London has a huge collection of documents on pirates and did a 3 year exhibition on it called "Pirates Fact and Fiction" from 1993 to I think 1995 here is thier pirate research page http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.632 and for africa this may help from the same place http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/pri...y=&startrow=85 The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Author: Stanley Lane-Poole Lieut. J. D. Jerrold Kelley 1890 is here http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22169...-h/22169-h.htm and more on pirates from Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Pirate...c._(Bookshelf) Last edited by RhysMichael; 23rd July 2008 at 12:37 AM.