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While there have been numerous historical adventure narratives published, this is the first major work to take place in the greatest desert of all. King retraced parts of Captain James Riley's three-month trek through the desert, going for days consuming only camel urine and locusts.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Dean King
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company, Books On Tape, William Heinemann
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780434008896
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“On a brisk early-May morning in 1815, when Captain James Riley gave the order to cast off from Savage's wharf in the Upper Houses section of Middletown, Connecticut, he had ten men attuned to his every word.”
Dean King is an American author of narrative non-fiction on adventure, historical and maritime subjects. - Wikipedia
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