Joe Snader. Caught Between Worlds: ...

Joe Snader. Caught Between Worlds: British Captivity Narratives in Fact and Fiction. Lexington: UP of Kentucky 2000 352 pp ISBN 0-8131-21647 $3495

Narratives according to Europeans describing their imprisonment abroad begin roughly at the same time as their continuous exploration and colonization of Africa and the Middle and Far East. The highly earliest, from the fifteenth hundred years are by sailors from Continental Europe still the phrase "captivity narrative" has be due [i]or[/i] owing to imply almost exclusively North American passages of settlers held captive from Native Americans. These are