Skeletons on the Zahara
Subtitle: A True Story of Survival
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: April 12, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780316159357
Subjects: Discovery And Exploration (General); Shipwrecks; History; Transportation; History: World; Africa; Essays & Travelogues; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; History / United States / 19th Century; General; Africa, North; Description and travel; Sahara; Slavery
First sentence: On a brisk early-May morning in 1815, when Captain James Riley gave the order to cast off from Savage's wharf in the Upper Houses section of Middletown, Connecticut, he had ten men attuned to his every word.