Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale by Maria Antonia Garces

Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale

Maria Antonia Garces

368 pages missing pub info (editions)

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Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to Algiers. The five years he spent in the Algerian b...

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