The Sultan's Admiral Quotes

“Life was a cheap commodity. To survive beyond childhood and beyond puberty was an achievement in itself.”
― Ernle Bradford, The Sultan's Admiral: Barbarossa: Pirate and Empire Builder

“...leathern voice of the tambour, the pipe of the silver whistle, and the dip, sigh, pause, and splash of the sweeping oars.”
― Ernle Bradford, The Sultan's Admiral: Barbarossa: Pirate and Empire Builder