Displaying 1 of 1 2004 Format: Book Author: King, Dean, author. Title: Skeletons on the Zahara : a true story of survival / Dean King. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2004] ©2004 Description: ix, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Summary: 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. Subjects: Commerce (Brig) Slavery -- Africa, North. Africa, North -- Description and travel. Sahara -- Description and travel. Genre: Travel writing. Notes: Two maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index. Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.6 20.0 Quiz: 77449. Contents: The officers and crew of the Connecticut merchant Brig Commerce, 1815 -- Places -- 1812 -- Acts of God. A good Yankee crew ; Omens ; Shipwreck on Cape Bojador ; A hostile welcome ; Misery in an open boat -- Ships of the sand. Purgatory ; Captured ; Thirst ; The sons of the father of lions ; Sidi Hamet's feast -- Journeys and sandstorms. Is it sweet? ; Honor among thieves ; Skeletons ; Wednoon and the atlas ; Valley of the locusts -- A slow rush to Swearah. Sheik Ali ; The captain has long been dead ; From the mouth of a Moor ; The road to Swearah -- Homecomings -- The publishing of Riley's narrative -- LCCN: 2003059380 ISBN: 0316835145 9780316835145 9780316159357 0316159352 Other Number: 52775213 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 131229 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 916.4804 King Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
