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Des Ekin
Books by Des Ekin
The Lionkeeper of Algiers
How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War
By Des Ekin
WINNER of the Journal of American Revolution's Book of the Year for 2023!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 ...
