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Skeletons On the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

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Skeletons On the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

An incredible story of shipwrecked American sailors sold into slavery in North Africa and dragged through the hellish interior of the Sahara.

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Title of ebook: Skeletons On the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
ISBN: 9780759509474
Publisher: Little Brown
Internet download file size: 8236 kb
Released online for download: 02-16-2004
Author of eBook: King, Dean

Prologue

In his five crossings of the Sahara, Sidi Hamet had never seen worse conditions. Forty days out of Wednoon, the sand had turned as fine as house dust and as hot as coals of fire. With their heavy loads, the camels labored up shifting dunes in spine-buckling bursts, then stumbled down the other side. With each step, the dromedaries thrust in to their knees, their wide, padded feet, designed by Allah to skim over sand, sinking like stones.

Despite his experience on the desert, Hamet had had no say in choosing this, the most direct route to Tombuctoo, about twelve-hundred miles in all, one that would take many months to travel. Having dropped south from Wednoon, then east around the AntiAtlas Mountains in six days, the caravan of a thousand men had halted on the edge of the desert, collecting many tons of the date-size argan fruit. The men had extracted oil from the argan pits to fortify their food. They had roasted the meat of the pits, rolled it into balls, and packed these in tent-cloth sacks to serve as camel fodder and fuel for their fires.?After ten days of preparat ... read full excerpt from Skeletons On the Zahara: A True Story of Survival ebook