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The lionkeeper of Algiers : how an American captive rose to power in Barbary and saved his homeland from war / Des Ekin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ekin, Des, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cathcart, James L. (James Leander), 1767-1843.
- Cathcart, James L.
- Cathcart, James L. (James Leander), 1767-1843--Captivity.
- Prisoners of war--Algeria--Algiers--Biography.
- Prisoners of war.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- United States--History--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Algeria.
- Algeria--Foreign relations--United States.
- Algeria.
- Africa, North--History, Naval--18th century.
- Africa, North.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Prometheus, an imprint of Globe Pequot, trade division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, [2023]
- Contents:
- The First Captive
- The Twelve-Year-Old Midshipman
- 'The Crazy Capital'
- Cast into the Den of Lions
- 'Our Sufferings is beyond your Conception'
- 'A Black Eye, A Broken Leg, and Credentials from Congress'
- The Undiplomatic Diplomat
- The Threshold of Pain
- 'If There Were No Algiers, I Would Have to Build One'
- Hannah and Isaac
- Lions and Tigers and Rats
- The Man who Made a Million
- The Hassan Whisperer
- Welcome to the Mad House
- It's a New Dawn, it's a New Dey, it's a New Life
- 'That is Our Liberty in Sweet America'
- Cape Desolation
- Clipping the Eagle's Wings
- Scipio
- 'Now I Have Got You, You Shall Eat Stones'
- The Attack on Scipio
- An Englishman and Two Irishmen Walk into a Bar
- 'Get Out of My Sight, Thou Dog Without a Soul!'
- 'A Dazzling Meteor in a Dark Night'
- The One That Got Away
- A Poet in Purgatory
- The Dey's Last Command
- 'Scipio Was in his Grave before Sunset'
- A Voyage to Save the Peace
- 'An Adieu to the Land of Bondage'
- Afterlives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 16, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ekin, Des. Lionkeeper of Algiers
- ISBN:
- 9781633888647
- 1633888649
- Publisher Number:
- 40031663951
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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