When I began researching the career of doomed explorer Henry Hudson about ten years ago, I happened upon mentions of contemporary English seafarers who had converted to Islam and made a terrifying name for themselves as Barbary pirates. They seemed to be a sort of 17th-century John Walker Lindh, the young American who went off to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban against troops from his own…
Douglas Hunter
Douglas Hunter is a past winner of the National Business Book Award and a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award.