The race for Timbuktu
Subtitle: in search of Africa's city of gold
By: Frank T. Kryza
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780060560652
Subjects: Explorers; Biography; Travelers; History; Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography
Notes: Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Scotsman at Tripoli; title: The African association; title: A wedding in the English garden; title: White man's grave; title: The "African traveler"; title: The tripoli route; title: Hugh Clapperton; title: The journey to Bornu; title: Undiscovered empires; title: The race begins; title: Over the rim of the world; title: Clapperton catches up; title: The ivory miniature; title: The widow Zuma; title: Treachery in the Tanexrouft; title: Troubles for Captain Clapperton; title: The city of legend; title: The long silence; title: The lost papers; title: The mystery solved.