Author:
Publisher: Jacana Media
Keywords: writing, african, prize, timbuktu, caine, series
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1919931066
ISBN-13: 9781919931067
Timbuktu, Timbuktu contains the winning and short listed stories from the Caine Prize for African Writing 2001. Bringing together writers from Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia and Tunisia, this collection is a showcase of African talent. It follows the publication in 2001 of the first Caine Prize anthology, Tenderfoots, which contained the winning and short listed stories of 2000.
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, timbuktu
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-04-28
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0312428944
ISBN-13: 9780312428945
Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster’s astonishing book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy’s body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high-school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in recent American fiction. Paul Auster is the author of eight previous novels, including The New York Trilogy, The Music
Author: Mark Jenkins
Publisher: Modern Times
Keywords: niger, journey, timbuktu
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1594867658
ISBN-13: 9781594867651
Authors:Shamil Jeppie, Souleymane Bachir Diagne,
Publisher: Human Sciences Research Council
Keywords: timbuktu, meanings
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-09-05
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0796922047
ISBN-13: 9780796922045
Contradicting the popular notion that African history survived only through the oral tradition, this collection of essays examines the rich legacy of written history on the continent, specifically in Timbuktu. It brings together articles written by a number of leading international scholars from Europe, the United States, and several African countries, covering a wide range of areas in the study of Timbuktu, from archaeology and literature to the intellectual life, libraries, and private collections in Timbuktu and West Africa.
Author: Rick Antonson
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Keywords: africa, west, journey, haircut, timbuktu
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-05-12
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 1550028057
ISBN-13: 9781550028058
Historically rich, remote, and once unimaginably dangerous for travellers, Timbuktu still teases with "Find me if you can." Rick Antonson’s encounters with entertaining train companions Ebou and Ussegnou, a mysterious cook called Nema, and intrepid guide Zak all make you want to pack up and leave for Timbuktu tomorrow. As Antonson travels in Senegal and Mali by train, four-wheel drive, river pinasse, camel, and foot, he tells of fourteenth-century legends, eighteenth-century explorers, and today’s endangered existence of Timbuktu’s 700,000 ancient manuscripts in what schol
Authors:Marq de Villiers, Sheila Hirtle,
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: gold, city, fabled, sahara, timbuktu
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-08-21
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0802714978
ISBN-13: 9780802714978
TimbuktuÂ--the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place even though its glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendor and decay of one of mankind’s treasures. Founded in the early 1100s by Tuareg nomads who called their camp Â"Tin Buktu,Â" it became, within two centuries, a wealthy metropolis and a nexus of the trans-Saharan trade. Salt from the deep Sahara, gold from Ghana, and money from slave markets made it rich. In part because of its wealth, Timbuktu also became a cente
Author: Elias N. Saad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, studies, islamic, civilization, notables, scholars, history, timbuktu, role, muslim, social
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-02-25
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 052113630X
ISBN-13: 9780521136303
Originally published in 1983, this book deals with the precolonial history of the Islamic West African city of Timbuktu. The book traces the fortunes of this fabled city from its origins in the twelfth century, and more especially from around 1400 onwards, to the French conquest in the late nineteenth century. The study rests upon a comprehensive utilisation of the Timbuktu sources, including the well-known chronicles or tarikhs of Timbuktu. The author focuses on the role of scholars and, in so doing, he provides a fresh study of a learned community in sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, the stu
