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38 reviewsIn 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 Dey’s 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
Ekin’s captivating storytelling brings this adventure to life. This