However, another WONDERFUL non-fiction story about the dangers of the gold coast of Africa in the years just after the War of 1812 in America try this book:
This was from 1815. A tail of a ship and crew and their trouble after pulling out of their American harbor as soon as they could after the war -- just to be plunged into a very horrible life of slavery among the Arabs of that most remote continent -- and how a few survived to tell the tale.
I forgot to mention Captain Riley's account was one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite books.
From the account as described and quoted in my book -- Arabs "surviving" in the desert were almost suffering about as much as their slaves (the crew of the ship) -- I think I would have easily died rather then having experienced all of that -- and I'm a pretty good "outdoorsy" guy.