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Title: Timbuktu School for Nomads, The
Author: JUBBER NICHOLAS
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2016
Imprint: NICHOLAS BREALEY
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
Once Timbuktu was the seat of African civilisation and the world.s richest city, romanticised by the great 16th Century traveller Leo Africanus, now the middle of nowhere…Half a millennium later, guided by these famous writings, Nicholas Jubber set out on a journey which crossed the Atlas Mountains, the Western Sahara and the Niger River to uncover the mythic city, liberated after a full year under the black flag of jihadis. It is a part of the world that remains teeth-janglingly dangerous, as witnessed in further terrorist atrocities in Mali in 2015. He was taken, in disguise, into the desert to learn the age-old skills of the nomads and found out why their continued existence is so essential to the Sahara and yet so under threat…Jubber tells a deeply moving story of resilience and compassion in the face of terror as well as a grand adventure tale across the sands of the Sahara.
ISBN: 9781857886702
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 326