Skeletons on the Zahara

A National Bestseller—the true story of shipwrecked American sailors in Africa who were captured by slavers and forced to trek through the Sahara. “This true-life saga reads like a cross between Master and Commander and Lawrence of Arabia .” — People 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 w