The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu by Anthony Sattin

The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu

Anthony Sattin

382 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous slow-paced
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London, 1788: a group of British gentlemen---geographers, scholars, politicians, humanitarians, and traders---decide it is time to solve the mysteries of Africa's unknown interior regions. Inspired by the Enlightenment quest for knowledge, they c...

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