Gone To Timbuctoo
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Third Reprint
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few destinations have captured the human imagination quite like Timbuctoo — that near-mythical city at the edge of the Sahara, long synonymous with the uttermost ends of the earth — and John Pearson's Gone to Timbuctoo chronicles a vivid, first-hand journey into the heart of West Africa, bringing this legendary city off the map and into startling, breathing reality. Pearson presents the landscapes, peoples, and histories of the region with the keen eye of a seasoned traveller, guiding the reader through sun-scorched desert tracks, ancient caravan routes, and the winding streets of a city that once reigned as one of the world's great centres of Islamic scholarship and trans-Saharan trade. Rich with cultural observation and animated by an infectious sense of wanderlust, the narrative illustrates how the legend of Timbuctoo both dwarfs and illuminates the real place — a tension that Pearson handles with wit, warmth, and a journalist's instinct for the telling detail. Published by the prestigious Collins imprint, this account stands as a compelling document of mid-twentieth-century travel writing, in the tradition of authors who understood that to journey to the edge of the known world is, ultimately, to discover something essential about oneself. For anyone who has ever looked at a map and felt the pull of the most remote corner upon it, this book will feel less like a travelogue and more like an irresistible invitation.
Author: John Pearson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Collins, St James's Place, London
Genre: Travel & exploration
Edition: Third Reprint
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few destinations have captured the human imagination quite like Timbuctoo — that near-mythical city at the edge of the Sahara, long synonymous with the uttermost ends of the earth — and John Pearson's Gone to Timbuctoo chronicles a vivid, first-hand journey into the heart of West Africa, bringing this legendary city off the map and into startling, breathing reality. Pearson presents the landscapes, peoples, and histories of the region with the keen eye of a seasoned traveller, guiding the reader through sun-scorched desert tracks, ancient caravan routes, and the winding streets of a city that once reigned as one of the world's great centres of Islamic scholarship and trans-Saharan trade. Rich with cultural observation and animated by an infectious sense of wanderlust, the narrative illustrates how the legend of Timbuctoo both dwarfs and illuminates the real place — a tension that Pearson handles with wit, warmth, and a journalist's instinct for the telling detail. Published by the prestigious Collins imprint, this account stands as a compelling document of mid-twentieth-century travel writing, in the tradition of authors who understood that to journey to the edge of the known world is, ultimately, to discover something essential about oneself. For anyone who has ever looked at a map and felt the pull of the most remote corner upon it, this book will feel less like a travelogue and more like an irresistible invitation.