The Pirate City, by R. M. Ballantyne (PDF ebook) – Today’s freebie resource is this classic “living book”, provided by The Tutor (formerly Home Educator’s Tutor). Here’s their description of this fascinating classic:
“Captain Jack Sparrow has re-kindled interest in the world of pirates and the high seas but long before Sparrow’s adventures there were just as exciting stories about real pirates. During the early 1800s the Barbary pirates were one such group of real pirates. Their approach to piracy was very sophisticated and protected by the Monarchy of Morocco. As a result exotic locales such as Tunis , Tripoli and Algiers truly became pirate cities, bases of operations for these 19th century terrorists.
“The Pirate City is set at the time when the Barbary pirates were sailing freely around the Mediterranean Sea plundering ships from any nation that had not paid tribute to the monarchy. The story centers around a merchant and his sons and their harrowing adventures of being captured while on a trading voyage, being taken to Algiers, sold as slaves and return to freedom. It is told from a decidedly Christian worldview and portrays men of faith holding to their values in the most adverse circumstances.
“The author, R.M. Ballantyne went undercover in Algiers to research this book dressing and living as an Arab and its historical accuracy is beyond dispute. He also accurately captured major political and religious themes of those earlier days most are still with us making this book not only a good adventure read but geo-politically relevant to this very day.”
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I tried to download it and it said the file was damaged and could not be opened.
Liz,
Check our “Problems?” tab at the top of the page. Sounds like you got a partial or corrupted download the first time… a fix for this is detailed under that tab.
- Jim E
Just wanted to let you know that the download worked for me in Internet Explorer but did not Mozilla Firefox (which gave me a corrupted file).
I actually LEFT-clicked on the link, allowed the resource to open in Acrobat, and THEN saved it – no problems
Anyone who missed this resource, please contact the publisher for assistance. Sorry for any glitches with this, but since we did not host this resource we can’t help on it now that the featured day is over.
- Jim E