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title: "The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold"
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# The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold

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## Customer Reviews

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    Timbuctu, the mysterious outpost.
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2015*

A few years ago I was contacted by Deni Cooperrider, who's husband was staying in a hotel in Timbuctu.  Bob Coopperrider, her husband, had discovered that the host at the hotel was Miranda Dodd. Now Miranda was the daughter of Terry Dodd who had rented our old house for some years.  To a great extent Miranda had grown up on our property and with our books.  I knew that she had visited Africa while she was in College, or afterward, but I didn't know that she had married a Timbuctu chieftan and that they had a hotel.  Bob Cooperridder and I had collected firewood together in the 70s and shared an old Farmall Cub tractor.  Bob was a teacher then but was interested in organic farming.  He later edited a Tilth periodical. He eventually retired and found himself helping Africans set up grain cleaning operations and other agricultural functions. At the hotel in Timbuctu, Miranda and Bob found that they had lived on the same road less than a mile apart.  When this book became available I thought that perhaps I should know more about Timbuctu.  I knew that it was solely or mostly made of earthen structures and was a very old crossroad city of importance.  And there was a hint of an ancient library there something like that in Ethiopia, full of ancient scrolls that exist no where else.Well, this book is not about the details of what remains in Timbuctu but about the British search for the source of the Niger River and Timbuctu.  Timbuctu is near to and possibly once on the river. Africa was basically closed in the early 1800s to Westerners.  And then there was that Sahara Desert to cross.  Or maybe one could go up the Niger River from the coast.  But no one knew where the Niger River went!  This book is about the Brits who died trying to get to Timbuctu and to find the route of the Niger.  Mostly they failed and suffered greatly in the process.  The excrutiating British hierarchy that created these explorers is well displayed. And this drama takes place in preparation for the colonization of Africa, which followed these explorations, orchestrated by men in plush armchairs in private clubs in London.  The book has a great amount of detail about the other men with boots on the ground or on camel back struggling through the sand and rocks, and drinking bad water.

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    Interesting but not a must read
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2017*

The Race for Timbuktu is an interesting history of the fabled city and the Niger River.  However, I would suggest that you find some maps of WestAfrica to follow the routes of the various expeditions.  I read the e-book version, and like nearly every e-book there are errors in the grammar, and spelling. It is also a slow ponderous read much like the camels crossing the Sahara desert.  Much of the book contains correspondence from the expeditions leaders to the British consul in Tripoli, also to tribal leaders, and the French and American consulates.  The book captures the characteristics of the time period, people and terrain in much detail, including the ongoing distrust between expedition leaders, tribal leaders, the British, and French personnel.  The author also covers the ongoing war of words between the French and British as to who ultimately found Timbuktu first. In the end Timbuktu was not at all  the city of golden streets and walls of precious gems, but more like current day Mogadishu.  Finally, would I tell a friend this is a must read? No.

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    The legendary City of Timbuktu attracted explorers to find it wealth of books and knowledge. Many gave their lives in search of
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2017*

Sit was a good story with footnotes to say where the evidence came from. The author told the story in detail, but in the way a story teller would tell an exciting story and with feeling for the character and places. It brings to life a story that was not well know to our modertime. The stories of Burton,Speke, Livingston, and Stanley are better known because the lived and wrote wonderful books. Now the other side of Africa's exploration by Europeans is brought to our modern times.

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