The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Reference & Research Book News | Date: May 1, 2006 | Copyright information

0060560649

The race for Timbuktu; in search of Africa's city of gold.

Kryza, Frank T.

HarperCollins

2006

322 pages

$25.95

Hardcover

DT551

In 1824, the French Geographical Society offered a prize to the first to reach Africa's version of legendary El Dorado. A Dallas, Texas-based writer, who ...

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