The shores of Tripoli : Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates / James L. Haley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haley, James L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Navy--Officers--Fiction.

United States.

United States. Navy.

Pirates.

History.

Battleships.

Naval history.

United States--History, Naval--19th century--Fiction.

Battleships--Fiction.

United States--History--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805--Fiction.

Pirates--Africa, North--Fiction.

Armed Forces--Officers.

North Africa.

Genre:

Action and adventure fiction.

Historical fiction.

War fiction.

Sea fiction.

Fiction.

History.

Naval history.

Physical Description:

448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Shores of Tripoli : a novel

Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016]

Summary:

It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion. Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam, is bound for the Mediterranean and a desperate battle with the pirate ship Tripoli. He later returns under legendary Commodore Edward Preble on the Constitution, and marches across the Libyan desert with General Eaton to assault Derna--discovering the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected.

Notes:

"A novel"--Cover.

Maps on endpages.

ISBN:

9780399171109

039917110X

OCLC:

946579713