Samuel G. Goodrich
ASIN: B00VZA9BCM
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 119
"Camel-riding Arab nomads captured the starving sailors...despised and working as slaves...faced unimaginable hardships." -Skeletons on the Zahara (2004)"Riley and his men managed to escape one disaster only to face another...attached by a marauding desert family." -The Crescent Obscured (2014)"Riley ran aground in 1815 and was captured by wandering Arabs." -Imperialism and Expansionism in American History (2015)In this book originally published in 1834, a professional writer retells the story of James Riley (1777 – 1840 ) who was the Captain of the United States merchant ship Commerce. Riley led his crew through the Sahara Desert, after they were shipwrecked off the coast of Moroccan Western Sahara in August 1815, and wrote a memoir about their ordeal. This true story describes how they came to be shipwrecked and their travails in the Sahara Desert. The book, published in 1817 and ...