Skeletons on the Zahara
Subtitle: a true story of survival
By: Dean King.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780316835145
Subjects: Commerce (Brig); Slavery -- Africa, North; Africa, North -- Description and travel; Sahara -- Description and travel
Description: Chronicles the hardships encountered by twelve American sailors who, in 1815, were shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, captured, sold into slavery, and sent on a difficult odyssey through the perilous heart of the Sahara.
Notes: Two maps on lining papers.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The officers and crew of the Connecticut merchant brig Commerce, 1815; title: Places; title: Prologue : 1812; title: Part one : Acts of God.; title: A good Yankee crew; title: Omens; title: Shipwreck on Cape Bojador; title: A hostile welcome; title: Misery in an open boat; title: Part two : Ships of the sand.; title: Purgatory; title: Captured; title: Thirst; title: The sons of the father of lions; title: Sidi Hamet's feast; title: Part three : Journeys and sandstorms.; title: Is it sweet?; title: Honor among thieves; title: Skeletons; title: Wednoon and the atlas; title: Valley of the locusts; title: Part four : A slow rush to Swearah.; title: Sheik Ali; title: The captain has long been dead; title: From the mouth of a Moor; title: The road to Swearah; title: Epilogue : Homecomings; title: Appendix : The publishing of Riley's narrative; title: Glossary of Arabic terms