Description
Product ID: | 9780099435921 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Skeletons On The Zahara |
Authors: | Author: Dean King |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Western Sahara, c 1800 to c 1900 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub. On 28 August 1815 the US brig Commerce was dashed against Mauritania's Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub. On 28 August 1815 the US brig Commerce was dashed against Mauritania''s Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship''s captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. |
Imprint Name: | Arrow Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Cornerstone |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2005-06-02 |