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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival is a 2004 nonfiction book written by maritime historian Dean King. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is based on two of the survivors' journals, primarily Captain James Riley 's memoir Sufferings in Africa .
Once back on American shores, Riley devoted himself to anti-slavery work but eventually returned to a life at sea.. He died March 13, 1840, on his vessel the Brig William Tell which he was sailing from New York to "St. Thomas in the Caribbean" [a] [5] "of disease caused by unparalleled suffering more than twenty years previous during his shipwreck and captivity on the desert of Sahara".
The survivors' story of extreme dehydration, severe starvation, and ever-present brutality while roaming the Sahara desert with their captors became a published story, first in the 1820s in retelling by Captain Riley himself, then by Archibald Robbins, a member of his crew, and then in the 2004 account Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of ...
Dean King (born 1962) is an American author of narrative non-fiction on adventure, historical and maritime subjects. His books include Skeletons on the Zahara (2004) and Unbound (2010), both published by Little, Brown.
Skeletons on the Zahara; Stories of the Sahara; Sufferings in Africa; W. Wheelbarrow Across The Sahara; Wind in the Sahara This page was last edited on 7 February ...
Sufferings in Africa is an 1817 memoir by James Riley.The memoir relates how Riley and his crew were enslaved in Africa after being shipwrecked in 1815. Riley was the Captain of the American merchant ship Commerce.
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The team also adapted Dean King's Skeletons of the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, [7] which chronicles the wreck of a Connecticut merchant ship and the crew's subsequent adventures in the Sahara Desert in 1815.