Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, (Paperback)

from arelenriel

A true "Survivor" tale. To heck with the fake tv show read this book. It is a wonderful tale of a group of sailors stranded off of the Ivory Coast of Africa in the 19th century.

from Schmerguls

5388. Skeletons on the Zahara A True Story of Survival, by Dean King (read 3 July 2016) This 2004 book is the result of the author discovering an 1817 book by James Riley, captain of the brig Commerce which left Connecticut in May 1815 and after stopping at New Orleans sailed to Gibralter and the...

from shawnd

Gripping. A survival novel based on historic Africa. This book taught me more about living in rustic rudimentary poverty than probably any other -- even better than Poverty by Vollmann. Although this is an adventure and survival story, the accounts of the lifestyle of the African nomads - how lit...

from nathan.c.moore

"Skeletons on the Zahara" is a true but gut-wrenching, dehydrating, queasy story of fate of Captain James Riley and the men of The Commerce. The story itself is horrifying and contains a quality of human suffering that is incomprehensible to the first world mind. I read this book right after read...

from Stbalbach

Entertaining introduction to a classic true adventure story. Although this is a modern retelling King often lapses into an early 19th style that makes it obvious he is paraphrasing from source material. Further a journalistic retelling of what happened 200 years, versus the first-person memoir by...