Toen men in Afrika op zoek ging naar goud - nu denken mensen dat dat in Europa valt te vinden - boek The race for Timbuktu
Wellicht voor diegene die veel Afrikaanse cliënten hebben en / of gek zijn op geschiedenisverhalen een stukje overgenomen van mijn boekenblog: Timbuktu rings a bell for all of us who were raised with the Donald Duck. When Donald had done something wrong and he had to race to a place as far remote as possible it was Timbuktu. In newer versions it is the North Pole I believe. But still I knew the name before hearing of it famous past. In 1825, Alexander Gordon Laing set out to become the first European to reach the city of Timbuktu since the Middle Ages. This “lively and informative” history ( The Washington Post ) traces his death-defying 2,000-mile journey. Amazon writes: 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 fam...