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Skeletons On The Zahara: A True Story Of Survival Copertina flessibile – 12 aprile 2005

Edizione Inglese di Dean King (Autore)
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A masterpiece of historical adventure, Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story 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 perilous heart of the Sahara.
The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub--and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair.
Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity.
From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.
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  1. Lunghezza stampa
    351 pagine
  2. Lingua
    Inglese
  3. Editore
    Back Bay Books
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    12 aprile 2005
  5. Dimensioni
    13.97 x 2.54 x 21.08 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0316159352
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0316159357
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Dean King is the author of the national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara. He has written for many publications, including Men's Journal, Esquire, Garden & Gun, Granta, Outside, New York Magazine, and the New York Times. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Back Bay Books; Reprint edizione (12 aprile 2005)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 351 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316159352
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316159357
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 340 g
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.08 cm
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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jim
5,0 su 5 stelle its a book
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 30 aprile 2024
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great read thanx
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wadadu
5,0 su 5 stelle Great story
Recensito in Canada il 28 luglio 2023
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Couldn't put it down . One of the most fascinating stories I've ever read.
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G. E. Harrison
5,0 su 5 stelle True story of the wreck of the US ship 'Commerce'
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 25 novembre 2023
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I read this book detailing a shipwreck while on a group walking holiday in the Greek Islands, including on two boat trips! In the book the crew survived the shipwreck but were then cast ashore on the Barbary Coast and taken by locals into the Sahara (Zahara) Desert. I'd often inform my fellow holiday makers of the various deprivations and horrors the survivors had to endure and they would say to me "Why would you read such a distressing book?" I began to ask myself the same question but this is a true story and I think the answer is that it is inspiring to read how much the human body and spirit can endure and you also begin to ask yourself how you would cope in similar circumstances. Despite some of the horrible events described in the book I did really enjoy it and I followed it up with a similar book 'Death Raft' by Alexander McGee about the wreck of the ship Medusa which someone told me was similar.

I chose this book because it was by Dean King the biographer of Patrick O'Brian and as I'd recently just finished reading the entire 'Master and Commander' series, I presumed this book would also be about seafaring adventures. However, although the first few chapters do deal with an ocean voyage the majority of the book is about what happened to the crew on land after they were shipwrecked.
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John H.
5,0 su 5 stelle One of the best books you will be lucky to read.
Recensito in India il 29 dicembre 2018
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An incredible story of life. A story that all Americans and British should read to understand the West's early conflict with Islam in North Africa. I was amazed and in awe of these men. The depth of faith and cruelty under the all seeing Eye of God.
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Capricorn One
4,0 su 5 stelle A compelling story of survival and perserverence of the human spirit
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This is a difficult book to read, due to the unimaginable suffering undergone by the survivors of the wrecked American brig Commerce along the Northern Africa coast, but it is also a compelling and tightly written story that will hold the reader's interest and give tremendous insight into life in the barren desert lands of North Africa and the nomadic tribesmen inhabiting that area during the early 19th century. Briefly, the American ship is wrecked along the coast of the Saharan desert, a place well known for ill treatment of shipwrecked sailors by the nomadic tribes in that region, including robbery, torture, murder, but most often being taken as slaves. The brig's crew, after an aborted early escape attempt by lifeboat, are captured and taken as slaves. They were treated in a miserable manner, forced to travel and serve the nomad tribes without adequate food, clothing, shelter, and little ability to communicate with their captors. Several were sold and traded to other tribes and, with the exception of a few somewhat compassionate tribesmen lived a life best compared to those held in WWII concentration work camps. Their only hope was to find and convince one of their slave owners that they would be worth more if taken to more civilized areas of Northern Africa (i.e. Morocco and proximate cities) where the English and French officials would pay money to ransom them. While having no absolute knowledge that they would be successful in obtaining those ransoms, they nevertheless were able to convince (bluff, as it were) one of their more benevolent owners to take them there. The book gives comprehensive insight into the life of the nomads; their almost complete reliance on Camels (with their magnificent ability to subsist on essentially worthless shrubs, little water, and yet travel great distances) to enable their nomadic existence, Nourishment was essentially camel milk, supplemented by the occasional killing of a camel or goat. The Commerce crew would have suffered significantly even if they had been treated equally with the tribesmen, but they had a worse lot, often walking over hot desert lands with inadequate protection from the sun and heat, and getting what little milk or animal offal left after their captors had their fill. Ship's captain Riley, a robust man of over 200 pounds, weighed 90 pounds when he and what was left of his crew were finally ransomed. Much like other shipwreck novels, it is a story of survival, undergoing hardship, and how even under the most adverse conditions men can, and do, keep their will to live and ultimately survive. I enjoyed the book, and learned a lot in reading it.
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