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020 $a9781857886542 (hbk.) :$cNT$908
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100 1 $aJubber, Nicholas.
245 10$aThe Timbuktu School for Nomads /$cNicholas Jubber.
260 $aLondon ; Boston :$bNicholas Brealey Publishing,$c2016.
300 $aviii, 326 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $aOnce Timbuktu was the seat of African civilisation and the world's richest city, romanticised by the great 16th Century traveller Leo Africanus, now the middle of nowhere. Half a millennium later, guided by these famous writings, Nicholas Jubber set out on a journey which crossed the Atlas Mountains, the Western Sahara and the Niger River to uncover the mythic city, liberated after a full year under the black flag of jihadis. It is a part of the world that remains teeth-janglingly dangerous, as witnessed in further terrorist atrocities in Mali in 2015. He was taken, in disguise, into the desert to learn the age-old skills of the nomads and found out why their continued existence is so essential to the Sahara and yet so under threat. Jubber tells a deeply moving story of resilience and compassion in the face of terror as well as a grand adventure tale across the sands of the Sahara.
650 0$aTombouctou (Mali)$vDescription and travel.
650 0$aJubber, Nicholas$vTravel$vAfrica, North.
650 0$aAfrica, North$vDescription and travel.