Sufferings In Africa

If you are like me, and really just can't get enough human suffering in your own life, then why not read about human suffering in other people's lives??? You'll learn a lot about camels, starvation, Arabs, and weight loss.......more

This book is an incredible read! I can see why President Lincoln listed as one of the most influential books he read as a young man. Sufferings in Africa is not merely a woeful tale fraught with melodramatic prose; instead, it is a riveting look into the invincibility of the human spirit juxtaposed......more

This is a book written in 1817 of a first person account of a shipwreck and subsequent enslavement of an American merchant crew in what is modern day Western Sahara. The tale is told by the Captain - James Riley. The fact that he lived to tell the tale meant that he and part of his crew reached free......more

A pivotal account of the sufferings of an ordinary man... as he led his crew through shipwreck and enslavement, and on a redemption trek across the desert. He had to endure not only his own humiliation and pain; but that of his shipmates, with one being gutted and dragged across the beach. Realizing......more

The brutality of human beings is beyond belief. What Riley and his crew experienced mirrored that of Holocaust victims, Bataan Death Marchers, American slaves, and others who've faced absolute cruelty at the hands of our own species. The mental fortitude of these men is extraordinary. I was most imp......more