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Description and travel, History, Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa, Discovery and exploration, Explorers, Entdeckung, Africa, discovery and exploration, African Association, Africa, history, Excavations (archaeology), africaPlaces
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The gates of Africa: death, discovery, and the search for Timbuktu
2005, St. Martin's Press
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The Gates of Africa
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The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu
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The gates of Africa: death, discovery and the search for Timbuktu
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Exploration's godfather
The charge of ignorance
A friend to mankind
The oriental interpreter
The Moors' tales
The Gambia route
The political player
No mean talents
Pity the white man
The golden harvest
The Göttingen connection
Juset ben Abdallah
Many deaths
The Swiss gentleman
Shaykh Ibrahim ibn Abdallah
A new world order
The fountains of the sun
The spirit of discovery.
Edition Notes
Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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