Skeletons on the Zahara: a true story of survival

The officers and crew of the Connecticut merchant Brig Commerce, 1815

Places

Prologue: 1812

Part one: Acts of God: A good Yankee crew ; Omens ; Shipwreck on Cape Bojador ; A hostile welcome ; Misery in an open boat

Part two: Ships of the Sand: Purgatory ; Captured ; Thirst ; The sons of the father of lions ; Sidi Hamet's feast ; Part three: Journeys and sandstorms: Is it sweet? ; Honor among thieves ; Skeletons ; Wednoon and the atlas ; Valley of the locusts

Part four: A Slow Rush to Swearah: Sheik Ali ; The captain has long been dead ; From the mouth of a Moor ; The road to Swearah

Epilogue: Homecomings

Appendix: The publishing of Riley's narrative

Glossary of Arabic terms.