To Timbuktu by Mark Jenkins Travel writer Mark Jenkins, three friends and a guide attempt the first descent of the Niger River to the legendary city of Tumbuktu. Interwoven in this dangerous journey is a story of Jenkin's boyhood trip to Europe and Africa and comments on the history of European attempts to understand the Niger and visit Timbuktu. Bombs of sunlight are exploding on the surface of the water. I begin to pass through brilliant holes of light. Colors flash around me as if I were inside a kaleidoscope.
Destiny is the coincidence of the random with the inevitable.
He doesn't like to think of people living in the African bush as entrepreneurial. He likes to think of them as stoic and noble, happy with the way things are. To Rick, Sori's request is a sign that the scourge of capitalism has penetrated to the most remote places on earth. And at its core it is a beautiful story of friendship and love. A Journey into America by William Least Heat Published in 1982, this account of one man's journey along the back roads of the United States has become a classic.