Skeletons on the Zahara
A True Story of Survival
Dean King
The book recounts the harrowing ordeal of an American merchant ship crew who, after shipwrecking off the coast of Africa in 1815, are captured and sold into slavery by Sahrawi tribesmen. It details their grueling journey across the unforgiving Sahara Desert as they struggle to survive and seek a way back to freedom.
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