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Stories Set in Timbuktu
Near the Niger bend at the Sahara's southern edge, Timbuktu is a desert city in Mali. Endowed by the wealth of the Mali and Songhai empires, its mosques and family libraries preserved law and astronomy, then French rule and the 2012 armed occupation threatened them. Timbuktu portrays that recent occupation, while Leo Africanus follows a traveler who passed through centuries earlier. Open Timbuktu on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 2 books and 2 movies set in Timbuktu.
Timbuktu
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed. A look at the brief…
Leo Africanus
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor…
Timbuktu
An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.
Die Enden der Welt
Auf fünf Erdteilen war Roger Willemsen unterwegs, um seine ganz persönlichen Enden der Welt zu finden. Manchmal waren es die großen geographischen: das Kap von Südafrika, Patagonien, der Himalaja, die Südseeinseln von…
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