Plates I: The Setting • 1. Timbuktu: Where the Camel Meets the Canoe Plates II: Portraits • 2. Timbuktu: A Sanctuary for Scholars • Plates III: Manuscripts • 3. Timbuktu: Keeping the Tradition
A truly sumptuous book that celebrates the unexpected cultural treasures of one of the most famous but least-known destinations on the planet
Alida Jay Boye is co-founder and co-ordinator of the University of
Oslo's Timbuktu Manuscripts Project.
John Hunwick has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to the history,
culture and literature of Islamic Africa. He is the author of many
books on the subject, including West Africa, Islam and the Arab
World and Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire
'This is a coffee-table book of the best kind, one that wants to be read as well as seen. Accessible text... sumptuous photographs' - Elle Decoration
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