Decorah Public LIbrary has copies for borrowing of "Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival"

The next book to be discussed by the Decorah Public Library's History Book Group can now be checked out at the library.

Dean King's "Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival" tells how Captain James Riley and the crew of the "Commerce" left port in Connecticut in 1815--but were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa.  That was followed by a hair-raising confrontation with hostile native tribesmen within hours of being washed ashore, a failed escape from the coast, a capture by desert nomads and an insane journey through the bone-dry heart of the Sahara- a region unknown to Westerners.  Along the way the Americans would encounter everything that could possibly test them: barbarism, murder, starvation, plagues of locusts, death, sandstorms that lasted for days, dehydration, and hostile tribes that roamed the desert on armies of camels.

Call the library at 382-3717 for more information.