Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the bone-dry heart of the Sahara. The ordeal of these men - who found themselves tested by barbarism, murder, starvation, death, dehydration, and hostile tribes that roamed the desert on camelback - is made indelibly vivid in this gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Dean King: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival Thursday, July 16 2009.

• 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.