Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo : and, Across the great desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828

by René Caillié

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Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the information he had collected. This account was first published in 1830, and records observations of a journey of 4500 miles, of which 3000 were hitherto unknown to Europeans.

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History, Nonfiction, Travel
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916.6History & geographyGeography & travelGeography of and travel in AfricaWest Africa
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DT356 .C13History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaAfricaHistory of AfricaCentral Sub-Saharan Africa
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