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To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey Through West Africa

Historically rich, remote, and once unimaginably dangerous for travellers, Timbuktu still teases with “Find me if you can.” Rick Antonson’s encounters with entertaining train companions Ebou and...

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Somebody’s Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa

“It’s my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her...

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Diplomatic Weekends in Africa

Diplomatic Weekends In Africa is a travelogue comprised of six stories, containing factual depictions of trips the author experienced in Sub-Saharan Africa, while working for the U.S. Government. Vivid...

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To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek through the Heart of Africa

Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating...

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Somewhere in the Sand: In Search of Timbuktu

Chris and his fellow adventurers embark on a wild, four-month journey as they travel the world. Together, they climb Mount Sinai, ride donkeys through the Valley of Kings and party every step of the...

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Frail Dream of Timbuktu

In one of her most exotic and physically challenging journeys, Bettina Selby set out to explore the land of ancient African empires along the southern fringes of the Sahara Desert. Following the...

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