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Skeletons on the Zahara
a true story of survival
By King, Dean
- ISBN
- 978-0-31683-514-5
- Publisher
- New York : Little, Brown, c2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2004
In 1815, 12 men boarded the merchant ship Commerce in Connecticut, bound for the Cape Verde Islands after a brief stopover in Gibraltar. Weather and unfamiliar surroundings, however, caused the ship to wreck on the inhospitable coast of what is now Mauritania. Taken as slaves by regional nomads and separated (some never to be seen again), the dozen sailors endured great hardships. King (Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed) rivets with this account of Captain Riley's nine week...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
