Riley led his crew through the Sahara Desert, after they were shipwrecked off the coast of contemporary Western Sahara in August 1815. This true story describes how they came to be shipwrecked and their trials in the Sahara. Lost in this unknown world, Captain Riley felt responsible for his crew and their safety. Read here of the events leading to their capture by marauding Sahrawi natives who kept them as slaves. Horribly mistreated, they were beaten, sun-burnt, starved, and forced to drink their own and camel urine, until their ultimate rescue.