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King, Dean, author.

Skeletons on the Zahara : a true story of survival / Dean King.

First edition.

New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2004]

©2004

ix, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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.

Commerce (Brig)

Slavery -- Africa, North.

Africa, North -- Description and travel.

Sahara -- Description and travel.

Travel writing.

Two maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index.

Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.6 20.0 Quiz: 77449.

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 --

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