Skeletons on the Zahara A True Story of Survival

Name: Skeletons on the Zahara A True Story of Survival
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ISBN: 9780316159357

ISBN-10: 0316159352

ISBN-13: 9780316159357

Edition: 2004

Authors: Dean King

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- A crucial, forgotten chapter of American history--immortalized in a survivor's firsthand account that became one of the bestselling books in 19th-century America and influenced Abraham Lincoln's, thoughts on slavery--is brilliantly retold for a new generation.- Currently in its fourth hardcover printing, SKELETONS ON THE ZAHARA appeared on the "San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list and spent four weeks on the extended "New York Times list.- The film rights to SKELETONS ON THE ZAHARA have been optioned by Dreamworks.- In the reading group guide bound into this edition, Dean King describes his own contemporary adventures in the Sahara, where be attempted to trace the sailors' fateful…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 4/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Dean King is the author of a biography of Patrick O'Brian, 'a model of how these things should be' (Telegraph 'Books of the Year').



Foreword


The Officers and Crew of the Connecticut Merchant Brig Commerce, 1815


Places


Prologue: 1812



A Good Yankee Crew



Omens



Shipwreck on Cape Bojador



A Hostile Welcome



Misery in an Open Boat



Purgatory



Captured



Thirst



The Sons of the Father of Lions



Sidi Hamet's Feast



Is It Sweet?



Honor Among Thieves



Skeletons



Wednoon and the Atlas



Valley of the Locusts



Sheik Ali



The Captain Has Long Been Dead



From the Mouth of a Moor



The Road to Swearah


Epilogue: Homecomings



The Publishing of Riley's Narrative


Glossary of Arabics Terms


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index