James Riley Captain.

Captain James Riley was an American sea captain best known for surviving a harrowing 1815 shipwreck and subsequent enslavement in the Sahara Desert. He documented these experiences in his bestselling 1817 memoir, "An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce," which captivated the public and profoundly influenced readers like Abraham Lincoln. Riley's gripping autobiographical accounts remain important historical records of early American maritime adventures and encounters in North Africa.