Though this powerful slavery-era narrative was penned almost 200 years ago, its message and emotional prowess have lost no intensity.\ Listed by Abraham Lincoln, alongside the Bible and Pilgrim's Progress, as one of the books that most influenced his life, few true tales of adventure and survival are as astonishing as this one. Shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in August of 1815, James Riley and his crew had no idea of the trials awaiting them as they gathered their beached...
Though this powerful slavery-era narrative was penned almost 200 years ago, its message and emotional prowess have lost no intensity.