In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned
more brightly in the imagination of European geographers - and
fortune hunters - than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's
legendary City of Gold, not visited by Europeans since the Middle
Ages, held the promise of wealth and fame for the first explorer to
make it there. In 1824, the French Geographical Society offered a
cash prize to the first expedition from any nation to visit
Timbuktu and return to tell the tale. Unwilling to trust in the
slender chances of a lone explorer, the British sent several on
their way. "The Race for Timbuktu" follows Major Alexander Gordon
Laing's arduous trek across an unforgiving Sahara, battling
unpredictable elements, crippling illness, vicious attacks - and
the clock - to be the first white man in centuries to reach the
gates of Timbuktu. In bringing Laing's dramatic story to life,
Frank T. Kryza also provides a narrative history of the first phase
of the colonization of Africa, which in less than a century would
see nearly every square mile of the continent occupied by the
nations of Europe.
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