To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
"Here is a lust for rigorous adventure . . . Jenkins displays a Whitmanesque openness to experience. He has the descriptive and narrative skills to bring off a vivid and gritty portrait of a little-explored corner of the world."—Bill Berkeley,Los Angeles Times"Jenkins's story is remarkable, and he is a major writing talent, able to see the world and describe it in ways that are new and refreshing."—Craig Holt,The Durham Herald-Sun"There is a melancholy . . . implicit in Mr. Jenkins's writing, that travel involves something futile, a disregard of Pascal's epigram about all evil things coming from man's being unable to sit still in a room. But it is just that touch of melancholy, of regret, of the hopelessness of the quest that givesTo Timbuktuits resonance."—Richard Bernstein,The New York Times