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The Lionkeeper of Algiers: How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War - Hardcover
- PublisherPrometheus
- Publication date2023
- ISBN 10 1633888630
- ISBN 13 9781633888630
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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Prometheus Books, Amherst, 2023
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In 1785, just a few years after U.S. Independence, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carried as prisoner to the maverick North African statelet of Algiers, where he is held as a political hostage along with hundreds of other seamen captured on the open seas. The piratical corsairs of Algiers have decided, without any warning, to exploit the vulnerability of the newborn United States by seizing its mariners and holding them for ransom while ruthlessly exploiting their free labor. Today, the name of James Leander Cathcart has been all but forgotten by history. And yet he was one of the most remarkable figures in the early story of the fledgling United States.The Lionkeeper of Algiers reveals the extraordinary and unlikely story of Cathcart, who, thanks to his flair for languages and his formidable human intuition, rose steadily up the ranks from lionkeeper at the Deys private zoo to become Chief Clerk at the Palace, along the way amassing a chain of taverns in Algiers that functioned as safe houses and food banks for American prisoners. Eleven years later, just one among more than one hundred US hostages in Algiers, Cathcart was paroled back to America and charged with delivering a vital letter to President George Washington, saving a tenuous peace deal and bringing the other captives home. Remarkably, his sense of honor compelled him to go back to Algiers where he had never formally been made free to see the peace project through. Cathcart would go on to become a U.S. diplomat in the lands where he was held captive for more than a decade. Featuring some of the most prominent Americans of the era like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, as well as ordinary citizens like Hannah Stephens, the wife of a sea captain who tirelessly lobbied Congress until she was finally reunited with her husband after more than a decade, author Des Ekins captivating storytelling brings this adventure to life. This page-turning narrative follows the twists and turns of Cathcarts own life upon the international stage of diplomacy, trade, and maritime statecraft at a time when Americas place in the world was hanging in the balance. This page-turning narrative follows the twists and turns of the life of hostage-turned-diplomat James Leander Cathcart upon the international stage of diplomacy, trade, and maritime statecraft at a time when Americas place in the world was hanging in the balance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781633888630
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