Timbuktu : the Sahara's fabled city of gold /: the Sahara's fabled city of gold. (2007)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Timbuktu : the Sahara's fabled city of gold /: the Sahara's fabled city of gold. (2007)
- Main Title:
- Timbuktu : the Sahara's fabled city of gold
- Further Information:
- Note: Marq De Villiers and Sheila Hirtle.
- Other Names:
- De Villiers, Marq, 1940-
Hirtle, Sheila - Contents:
- Dreaming spires of gold, under the desert sun -- The founder, the founding and the legends -- The city, its site and its neighborhood -- The Niger's course and meaning -- The people of the region -- Precursors: the empires of the sun -- The coming of the Arabs -- Mansa Musa and the first golden age of Timbuktu -- The First Tuareg interregnum -- The coming of the Songhai -- The rise of Askia al=hajj Mohamed and the second golden age -- The underpinnings of wealth -- Travelers' tales -- Life and learning in the city of gold -- The second golden age and the intellectual tradition -- The end of the Askias -- The coming of the Moroccans -- The long march and the Pasha's conquest of Timbuktu -- The long decline -- The coming of Jihad -- Finally, the Europeans -- And now? -- Appendix 1: Commonly used tales -- Appendix 2: Lineages -- Appendix 3: Glossary of tribes and cultures -- Appendix 4: Who was who.
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Walker & Co
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages), illustrations, maps
- Subjects:
- 966.23
History -- Africa -- West
Manners and customs
History -- General
History
Tombouctou (Mali) -- History
Tombouctou (Mali) -- Social life and customs
Tombouctou (Mali) -- Histoire
Tombouctou (Mali) -- Moeurs et coutumes
Mali -- Tombouctou
Tombouctou (Mali) -- History
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780802718303
0802718302 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780802714978
0802714978 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.69995
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