The gates of Africa
Subtitle: death, discovery, and the search for Timbuktu
By: Anthony Sattin
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780312336431
Subjects: Description and travel; History
Notes: Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exploration's godfather; title: The charge of ignorance; title: A friend to mankind; title: The oriental interpreter; title: The Moors' tales; title: The Gambia route; title: The political player; title: No mean talents; title: Pity the white man; title: The golden harvest; title: The Göttingen connection; title: Juset ben Abdallah; title: Many deaths; title: The Swiss gentleman; title: Shaykh Ibrahim ibn Abdallah; title: A new world order; title: The fountains of the sun; title: The spirit of discovery.