The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Stanley Lane-Poole (1854-1931) was a British orientalist and archaeologist. His uncle was Edward William Lane. Born in London, England, from 1874 to 1892 he worked in the British Museum, and after that in Egypt researching on Egyptian archaeology. From 1897 to 1904 he had a chair as Professor of Arabic studies at Dublin University. His works include: The Life of Edward William Lane (1877), The People of Turky (1878), Lane's Selection from the Kuran (1879), Egypt (1881), Studies in a Mosque (1883), Social Life in Egypt: A Description of the Country & its People (1884), The Story of the Moors in Spain (1886), Turkey (1888) and The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (1890) with the collaboration of Lieutenant James Douglas Jerrold Kelley (1847-1922).