To Timbuktu
(Book)
Published
New York : W. Morrow, ©1997.
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
224 pages : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Status
Gillette College Library - Main Collection
916.6204 J52T
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916.6204 J52T
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Subjects
Library of Congress Subjects
Autobiographies.
Guinea -- Description and travel.
Jenkins, Mark, -- 1958 November 22- -- Travel -- Guinea.
Jenkins, Mark, -- 1958 November 22- -- Travel -- Mali.
Jenkins, Mark, -- 1958 November 22- -- Travel -- Niger River.
Kayak touring -- Guinea.
Kayak touring -- Mali.
Kayak touring -- Niger River.
Mali -- Description and travel.
Niger River -- Description and travel.
Tombouctou (Mali) -- Description and travel.
Guinea -- Description and travel.
Jenkins, Mark, -- 1958 November 22- -- Travel -- Guinea.
Jenkins, Mark, -- 1958 November 22- -- Travel -- Mali.
Jenkins, Mark, -- 1958 November 22- -- Travel -- Niger River.
Kayak touring -- Guinea.
Kayak touring -- Mali.
Kayak touring -- Niger River.
Mali -- Description and travel.
Niger River -- Description and travel.
Tombouctou (Mali) -- Description and travel.
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Published
New York : W. Morrow, ©1997.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224).
Summary
Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote place on earth they could imagine: Timbuktu. Stopped by disease and the desert, they never reached the fabled city. Nonetheless, that first journey taught them the meaning of travel - that to be en route is more important than to arrive, that where.
Summary
Your body has been is secondary to where your heart has gone. Fifteen years later they return to Africa, determined to reach Timbuktu. But this time they will do so by water, attempting the first descent of the Niger River. Both men are now married, their wives pregnant, their lives irrevocably altered from their days of youth. With an intuitive African guide and two companions, they search for and find the source of the Niger River high in the mountains of Guinea. The.
Summary
River immediately bears them into the heart of Africa, the Dark Continent; they are attacked by African killer bees, charged by hippos, stalked by crocodiles, borne over waterfalls. They pass through villages where every female child has had a clitoridectomy; stumble upon a brotherhood of blind men living alone in the bush; dance by firelight with a hundred naked women. And yet even after successfully navigating the headwaters of the Niger, the author still has not.
Summary
Reached the dream of his youth. He then buys a motorcycle, rides alone through the Sahara, and enters Timbuktu, the mythical city hidden in a sea of white sand. Throughout, the author interweaves the tales of his own journey with the stories of the early explorers who tried to reach Timbuktu, men of unconquerable will, vanity, and perseverance, who would die beheaded, speared, or eaten alive by illness.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jenkins, M. (1997). To Timbuktu (First edition). W. Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jenkins, Mark, 1958 November 22-. 1997. To Timbuktu. W. Morrow.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jenkins, Mark, 1958 November 22-. To Timbuktu W. Morrow, 1997.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jenkins, Mark. To Timbuktu First edition, W. Morrow, 1997.
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