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Article: Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery. .(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2003
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Nabil Matar. Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xi + 268 pp. $32.50. ISBN: 0-231-11014-6.
Adventurous early modern Englishmen set their sights on horizons both west and east. While pilgrims and planters struggled in the North American wilderness, their countrymen pursued fortunes, often far more successfully, on the coasts of Barbary and in the ports of the Ottoman Levant. Many more Englishmen traveled to the Mediterranean than crossed the Atlantic in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thousands of them dwelled among Muslims for extended periods, as renegades, soldiers, ...