Milton's story could scarcely be more action-packed, and its setting and subsidiary characters are as fantastic as its events. this is not a dry history, but a full-blooded narrative closer in style to a historical novel than to an academic study. Giles Milton has a gift for searching out odd and forgotten corners of history and turning them into bestselling books. Praise for White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of he imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime.
Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Our Number One name in popular history is back with an explosive new paperback, a sensational new cover look and a 'fiction' style marketing campaign that will strike gold in summer 2005.
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