To Timbuktu for a haircut : a journey through West Africa
"Historically rich, remote, and once unimaginably dangerous for travellers, Timbuktu still teases with 'Find me if you can.' Rick Antonson's encounters with entertaining train companions Ebou and Ussegnou, a mysterious cook called Nema, and intrepid guide Zak all make you want to pack up and leave for Timbuktu tomorrow. As Antonson travels in Senegal and Mali by train, four-wheel drive, river pinasse, camel, and foot, he tells of fourteenth-century legends, eighteenth-century explorers, and today's endangered existence of Timbuktu's 700,000 ancient manuscripts in what scholars have described as the most important archaeological discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls."--Publisher description
256 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
9781550028058, 1550028057
183265027
Scarcely visited places
The origin of myths
The quest for Timbuktu
From here to Timbuktu
Among the Tuareg
The forbidden city
The strong brown god
African lanterns
A good night for West Africa
Epilogue
A gentle harshness