{"product_id":"corsair-1","title":"Corsair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorsair \u003c\/i\u003eby Tim Severin is the  first swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1677. On a late-summer's evening, two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. Seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot as the Barbary corsairs raid his village, and he and his sister are snatched. Separated from each other, Hector is sold at auction in Algiers, and thrown into a bewildering world where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn North Africa, Hector befriends fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, and the two men convert to Islam to escape the horrors of the slave barracks - only to become victims of the deadly warfare of the Mediterranean. Serving aboard a Turkish ship, their vessel is sunk at sea and by a savage twist of fortune they are chained to the oar bench of a French galley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesperate to find his sister, Hector finally stumbles on the chilling truth of her fate when he and Dan are shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231977263448,"sku":"9781447277460","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781447277460.jpg?v=1768997716","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/corsair-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}