The history of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary. Giving an Account of his being taken by two Sallce Rovers, and carry'd a Slave to Mequinez, at Eleven Years of Age: His various Adventures is that Country for the Space of Twenty-Three Years: Escape, and Return Home. In which is introduced, A porticular Account of the Manners and Customs of the Moors; the astonishing Tyranny and Cruelty of their Emperors, and a Relation of all those great Revolutions and Bloody Wars which happen'd in the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, between the Years 1720 and 1736. Together with a description of the cities, Towns. and Publick Buildings in those Kingdoms; miseries of the Christian slaves; and many other curious particulars. Written by himself.

People / Organizations

• Thomas Pellow (Author)
• William Owen ("sold by")

Imprint

[Bath?]: Printed for R. Goadby; and sold by W. Owen, Bookseller, at Temple-Bar, London, [1751]

Publication year

1751

ESTC No.

T144536

Grub Street ID

191401

Description

[4],388p. ; 12⁰

Note

With an initial advertisement leaf.

Listed in the Monthly Catalogue for October 1751.

Uncontrolled note

Advertisement leaf supports 1751 date