by Tim Severin · DeBolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498007060
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«Corsario» is the historical adventure novel by Tim Severin, published by DeBolsillo in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
In 1677, Barbary corsairs abduct Hector Lynch and his sister Elizabeth in Ireland. Sold in Algiers, Hector survives with Dan, a Miskito Indian, and both convert to Islam to gain their freedom. After serving on a Turkish corsair ship and being shipwrecked, they end up as rowers on a French galley, but Hector continues to search for his sister.
First installment of the series The Adventures of Hector Lynch, translated from English by Juan José Llanos Collado.
For readers of historical fiction and maritime adventures, with piracy and slavery in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean.
Timothy Severin was a British explorer, historian, and writer. Severin was noted for his work in retracing the legendary journeys of historical figures. Severin was awarded both the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. He received the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for his 1982 book The Sindbad Voyage.
