Promo: An American Slave in Barbary by Larry Kelley
Today, I welcome US American author Larry Kelley to Ruins & Reading. We're sharing an intriguing excerpt from his new adventure, An American Slave in Barbary . Have a read! An American Slave in Barbary is currently on blog tour with the Coffee Pot Book Club. Check out other tempting extracts HERE ! An American SLAVE in Barbary The Odyssey of Winston Prescott Jones Larry Kelley Excerpt: We were only about thirty leagues from the Straits of Gibraltar. Adjusting the sails and riggings of our twelve-man ketch, Intrepid, we made in the morning of August 2, 1801, seven days after we left Greece, ready our departure from the Mediterranean and entrance into the Atlantic. We were on our return voyage to Boston when our passage was blocked by two Muslim pirate ships. Each was a three-masted xebec, with crews of about one hundred and fourteen cannons. They did not fire their cannons at us, because their aim was to capture our ship intact and our crew alive. For the rest...
