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- Title The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
- Author Frank T. Kryza
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, New York
- Date 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780060560645 / 0060560649
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.13 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.87 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Explorers - Great Britain, Tombouctou (Mali) - History - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005049491
- Dewey Decimal Code 966.23
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New York: Ecco Press, 2006. xxv, 322 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. Another copy available. "In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers - and fortune hunters - than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by Europeans since the Middle Ages, held the promise of wealth and fame for the first explorer to make it there. In 1824, the French Geographical Society offered a cash prize to the first expedition from any nation to visit Timbuktu and return to tell the tale. Unwilling to trust in the slender chances of a lone explorer, the British sent several on their way. One of the contenders was Major Alexander Gordon Laing, a thirty-year-old army officer. Handsome and confident, Laing was convinced that Timbuktu was his destiny, and his ticket to glory. In July 1825, after a whirlwind…
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