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The Pirate City
R. M. Ballantyne
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“Where is your bride, Ali? I should like so much to see her.”
“Her’s at ’ome, safe,” said Rais Ali, touching a formidable key which was stuck in his silken girdle.
“What! have you locked her up?”
“Yis—’bleeged to do so for keep her safe.”
“Not alone, I hope?” said Mrs Langley.
“No, not ’lone. Her’s got a bootiflul cat, an’ I means buy her a little nigger boy soon.”
Having arranged that Mrs Langley was to visit his bride on her way to Sidi Omar’s wedding the following day, Rais Ali set out on his mission, accompanied by Mr Flaggan.
The Irishman soon discovered that the Moor was a conceited coxcomb and a barefaced boaster, and ere long began to suspect that he was an arrant coward. He was, however, good-humoured and chatty, and Ted, being in these respects like-minded, rather took. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Two stars, because the first half is just a bunch of people getting brutally executed, and the storyline isn't very good anyway.
The historical element of this book is very good. As to the reading experience? It focused a bit too much on the occurrences and not the characters. I was also a bit frustrated by a small viewpoint, but overall, good read.
I liked it better the first time I read this book a couple years ago, but it was still very enjoyable. I love Ballantyne's style for historical fiction although it would certainly not work for any other genre I can think of.
A merchant and his two sons leave Sicily on a voyage, and are taken captive by a pirate from Algiers. They are enslaved, and during their many exciting adventures, we learn of the way of life in the pirate city. There is plenty of history included, along with some of the terrible ways of enforcing d
Every once in a while I find myself in a mood for a good story. So, ignoring the stack of books I was already in the process of reading, I quickly scanned my couple shelves of fiction books for any possibilities. A whole set of Ballantyne books stared off the shelf at me, so I decided to give this a
Great book, very exciting and interesting and packed full of history about pirates! Argh matey I loved it! Five stars for being great!
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