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Skeletons on the Zahara A True Story of Survival

Dean King

Chronicles the hardships encountered by twelve American sailors who, in 1815, were shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, captured, sold into slavery, and sent on a difficult odyssey through the perilous heart of the Sahara.

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The Matt Walsh Show

Matt Walsh said he had just finished reading the book, which recounts the 1815 shipwreck of James Riley and his crew's ordeal as white slaves in the Sahara desert.

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I finished the book Skeletons on the Zahara. It tells the story of James Riley, captain of the merchant ship Commerce, which shipwrecked off the coast of North Africa in 1815 and the crew's subsequent...

— Episode: Ep. 996 - White Slaves, And Other Inconv...

Episode: Ep. 996 - White Slaves, And Other Inconvenient His...

Matt Walsh said he had just finished reading the book, which recounts the 1815 shipwreck of James Riley and his crew's ordeal as white slaves in the Sahara desert.

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I finished the book Skeletons on the Zahara. It tells the story of James Riley, captain of the merchant ship Commerce, which shipwrecked off the coast of North Africa in 1815 and the crew's subsequent enslavement as white slaves.

Episode: Ep. 996 - White Slaves, And Other Inconvenient His...

He finished the book and described its account of James Riley's shipwreck, desert captivity, and the brutal treatment of white slaves in 19thcentury North Africa.

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You know, over the weekend I finished the book Skeletons on the Zahara. It tells the story of James Riley, captain of the merchant ship Commerce, which shipwrecked off the coast of North Africa in 1815. Riley, along with his entire crew, were stranded in the Saharan desert, seized and enslaved by desert nomads, and forced to endure starvation, beatings and being treated as property far beneath camels and donkeys.

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