TEN YEARS A SLAVE: The Remarkable Voyage and Captivity of Richard Haselton

TEN YEARS A SLAVE >In 1582, ordinary English sailor Richard Haselton set sail on a routine merchant voyage. He would not see his wife and children again for a decade.Captured by Turkish galleys, sold into slavery for sixty-six pistols, and chained to an oar for four brutal years, Haselton survived shipwreck, starvation, and the merciless Mediterranean sun. Escaping only to fall into the hands of the Spanish Inquisition, he endured torture on the rack, a year in a pitch-black dungeon thirty feet underground, and five hundred lashes through the streets of Palma. Yet this is no ordinary tale of suffering. Refusing again and again to renounce his Protestant faith - even when offered wealth, land, a wife, and freedom by a North African king - Haselton escaped four times across two empires. From a stolen boat with a sail made of his own trousers to a daring midnight crossing of a guarded mountain bridge while disguised as a Moor, his courage and defiance are astonishing. Based on the rare 1595 pamphlet written by Haselton himself, this modern retelling brings one of the most extraordinary survival stories of the Elizabethan age to life. A gripping account of faith, endurance, and the unbreakable human spirit against the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Berber kingdoms of North Africa. One man. Ten years. Four escapes. An unforgettable true story.

Pagina's: 56, Paperback, Independently published