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Title: Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King ISBN: 0-316-83514-5 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The lessons of suffering in the age of surviving
Comment: I was with a group of friends the other evening and we started talking about these uncertain and violent times, and how people seem to be looking for examples and symbols of courage and endurance in the face of anxiety and extinction. After pondering the question of leadership and where to find it... we decided the best place to find it at the moment is in books. Namely, survival stories. Dean King tells a wild and harrowing tale of men desperately trying to keep it together as their alien surroundings swallow them alive. Running parrallel to the marooned band's epic... is King's expedition through the desert in search of his story. At its best it reads like a man clawing through the ashes of an evaporated city. More intimate and ''beautful'', and in many ways more shocking, is Peter Hillary's In The Ghost Country, about his own journey to the bottom of the world and the depths of his mind, his titanic struggle to hold on to his sanity as the ghost of his past rise up before him in living color. A brilliant evocation of the human condition.
Rating: 5
Summary: For the malnourished reader -- a double treat
Comment: After a frustrating run with a dozen or so mediocre books (three best-selling thrillers, two famous name memoirs, three populist science and the universe curios and assorted easy-digest sex and violence trash teasers) I've read TWO brilliant books in one week! SKELETONS OF THE ZAHARA was one of them. Survival stories can be a real drag after a while, as the miseries begin to mount with no end, but King has managed to make this tale sing with the excitement of legend. There are times when there's something spiritual about the trials of these men, especially when they go out of their minds and into a trippy state with thirst and anxiety. A superb tale.
The other book that has simply stunned me is IN THE GHOST COUNTRY. It's about Peter Hillary's heart-breaking journey to the South Pole, the loneliest and most disturbing oddysey of his life on the edge. Hillary has survived where many, many of his friends have died in the mountains -- and many of them who were at his side at the time. On the body-wrecking and mind-warping haul to the bottom of the world, the ghosts of friends and family rise up to walk with him. Shocking, sad, captivating and a very trippy experience. Too many amazing stories to go into here.
Rating: 5
Summary: HOPE FOR TODAY!.....SUCH A CONTRIBUTION !!
Comment: Reading that the author, Dean King, was going to speak locally, I was drawn to his talk ( and film presentation) by his discovery not only of a miraculous survival story, but of the incredulous human connection between two men of very different backgrounds, ( worlds actually) which basically only knew to fear and avoid each other at all costs.
Through their journey, their own humanity came forth under which we would consider brutal condtions. The trust, friendship and respect between a devout Christian and devout Muslim exceeded all bonds. This, to me, is where the author's gift and treasure lie of this book.. the historical account which King researched very thoroughly, is amazing enough, but that he was able to keep and honor that which the Conneticut Capt. wrote about as well... the friendship and connection which kept the sailors alive until their rescue ...and beyond!
How were these men who began as slaves and master able to bridge the bond of respect and mutuality? You will have to take their journey with them and realize those same possibilities exist for today. When we see 'the enemy' as human, we see ourselves and how they are a part of our own survival...... This lesson is just as meaningful today as it was 200 years ago!
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Title: The Darkest Jungle : The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Raceto Connect the Seas by TODD BALF ISBN: 0609609890 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account of a New England Sea Captain Enslaved by North African Arabs by James Riley ISBN: 1585740802 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson ISBN: 0060730552 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen ISBN: 0066211735 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander ISBN: 067003133X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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