Download or read book Journey to TimBookTu written by Memphis Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to TimBookTu is the first edition anthology compiled and edited by the webmaster ofthe cyberspace poetry phenom TIMBOOKTU.COM. It features over 250 of the best poetry, prose and short stories from contributors since the site's initial launch in 1996. Stories from all walks of life as told by those who have lived them andtales as fantastic as the mind's eye can see. Journey to TimBookTu is surely one to delight for contemporary interpretation or as a conversationpiece.

Download or read book To Timbuktu for a Haircut written by Rick Antonson and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timbuktu: the African city known to legend as a land of scholars, splendor and mystery, a golden age in the Sahara Desert. But to many it is a vaguely recognizable name – a flippant tag for “the most remote place on earth.” With this fabled city as his goal, author Rick Antonson began a month-long trek. His initial plan? To get a haircut. Aided by an adventuresome spirit, Rick endures a forty-five hour train ride, a swindling travel agent, “Third World, three-lane” roads, rivers, and a flat deck ferry boat before finally reaching Timbuktu. Rick narrates the history of this elusive destination through the teachings of his Malian guide Zak, and encounters with stranded tourists, a camel owner, a riverboat captain, and the people who call Timbuktu home. Antonson’s eloquence and quiet wit highlight the city’s myths—the centuries old capital and traveler’s dream—as well as its realities: A city gripped by poverty, where historic treasures lie close to the sands of destruction. Indeed, some 700,000 ancient manuscripts remain there, endangered. Both a travelogue and a history of a place long forgotten, To Timbuktu for a Haircut emerges as a plea to preserve the past and open cultural dialogues on a global scale. The second edition of this important book outlines the volatile political situations in Timbuktu following the spring 2012 military coup in Mali and the subsequent capture of the city by Islamic extremists. Literally, it is a race against time to save the city’s irreplaceable artifacts, mosques, and monuments, and to understand why Timbuktu’s past is essential to the future of Africa.

Download or read book To Timbuktu written by Mark Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book To Timbuktu written by Mark Jenkins and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writer Mark Jenkins, three friends, and an African guide set out to attempt the first descent of the Niger River to the legendary city of Timbuktu. Along the way, they are attacked by killer bees, hippos, and crocodiles, find a group of blind men in the bush, and dance with a hundred naked women among other incredible adventures. A daring and dangerous real-life mix of the dramatic and the absurd. 20 color photos.

Download or read book The Cruelest Journey written by Kira Salak and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In retracing explorer Mungo Park's fatal journey down West Africa's Niger River, author and adventuress Salak became the first person to travel alone from Mali's Old Segou to Timbuktu, the legendary "doorway to the end of the world." This is her story.

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Download or read book From Ilorin to Timbuktu written by Moshood Mahmood M. Jimba and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the author's trip to Timbuktu, Mali in April-May 2008, via Benin and Burkina Faso.

Download or read book Unbreakable written by William Fredrick Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven years ago, William McCall lost the love of his life, Linda. Still grieving her death, he drowns his sorrows on Valentine's Day at a local bar in Manhattan, when a new woman enters his life. Keisha Gray is a Michigan schoolteacher visiting the Big Apple, and when she first meets William, they bond over their shared love for Michael Jackson. Soon they connect over much more and set out on a journey to heal their broken pasts. The couple travels through New York, South Carolina and Michigan to sort through their pasts and renew their faith in God, life and love.

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Download or read book Explorer Books Pathfinder Social Studies World History Tales from Timbuktu written by Sylvia Linan Thompson and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single copy of Tales From Timbuktu. Journey to Timbuktu to learn about the rise and fall of this fabled "city of gold" and find out about Timbuktu's modern treasure, ancient books.

Download or read book Six Days in January written by William Fredrick Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attacking society’s damaging rhetoric and stereotypes around male emotions, Six Days in January offers an answer to the question: what can happen to a man when he is damaged by love? William McCall finds himself making his way down icy streets, battling not only the wee hours and bitter cold of a Thursday morning in mid-January, but the brutal truth of a mistake he just made that has cost him the love he tried to capture with his hopeful lady, Della Montgomery. Confused and dazed as he makes his way to an empty, unsafe Fordham Road subway station, he wonders how he got to this point and if he’ll ever find his way back to love. McCall had been fitted for a dog collar, like so many African American men. But was the label warranted? Growing up, he was taught by a single mother how to be a sensitive, strong, and caring black man, however no woman wants to deal with him, for they see him as too sweet, soft, and, in the eyes of some, effeminate. By the time he is cast from Della's house and life, bitterness and insecurity has swallowed him. He has turned off his innate, chivalrous tendencies and has become a man even he failed to recognize. In order to restore faith in himself and the man he knows he's capable of being, he begins an introspective soul search, a courageous process that lasts for six days in January.

Download or read book Mary s Little Lamb written by Lawrence Christopher and published by Michael Faulkner. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mick Hart Investigation Agency began by their finding deadbeat child supporters. Mick and his staff have gotten so good at their jobs that on occasions they will take on a missing-person case. If they can find a person who is hiding, then how hard is it to find someone who is lost? It's Election Day Tuesday. In the news, Odelot, Ohio elects its first African American mayor. A fatal car jacking has left a woman dead. Two teenage girls are missing: Sapphire (Mary's Little Lamb) and Brook, the daughter of John Lincoln, Odelot's, first African American mayor. PI, Mick Hart is called upon to find only one of the missing girls, while Odelot's finest find the other. The search for one girl may lead Mick to the other. Who and what Mick finds through his investigation brings one family joy and the other family pain.Sapphire and Brook are best friends, and everywhere that Sapphire went, Brook was sure to go. Mary's Little Lamb Sapphire is mentoring Brook in the ways of boys and men. "I told her, just cause you have a dog that licks your toes, don't mean you have to keep him. Because a dog will lick anything and everything" says Sapphire. Sapphire has the reputation of being hot in the pants, but she knows how to take care of her self. A trait she inherited from her mother. Fourteen years old Sapphire is blessed and cursed with the wiles and ways of her mother Mary, along with her voluptuous genes.Mick Hart's search for Mary's Little Lamb leads him to a pack of wolves. These wolves prowl the schoolyards and shopping malls of Odelot and the information highway of the Internet, preying on little lambs. They hang out on playgrounds as child pimps and lurk online as predator wolves in sheep's clothing. It's up to Mick Hart to find out which ones have nabbed the missing teens.Mick has a personal grudge with the newly elected mayor John Lincoln. Whether Mick lets his hostility interfere with his duty in finding Lincoln's daughter Brook is unknown. If Mick does agree to find the missing teen, it will cost Lincoln. The price comes with Lincoln divulging a painful secret from his past . . . a secret that answers the why to this whodunit mystery.

Download or read book Somewhere in the Sand written by Chris Berggren and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris and his fellow adventurers are back from a wild, four-month stretch of world travel. Together, they climbed Mount Sinai, rode donkeys through the Valley of Kings, and partied every step of the way. The young men have become addicted to travel, and it isn't long before they are plotting their next trip this time to Timbuktu, a place of seemingly mythical proportions in the West African country of Mali. Before long, their group gets larger in number, and soon, a small army of nine is making plans to head to Africa. They don't know what to expect, but then again, they don't care. Once in Africa, they will need to navigate the desert, deal with corrupt officials, and stomach extreme images of hardship and poverty. Along the way, they find quite a bit of adventure but also quite a bit of trouble. Through it all, this group of adventure junkies finds out that the perfect place to quench their thirst for excitement is Somewhere in the Sand.

Download or read book Feelin Blue Black All Over written by Brett Bonner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetic Revolution has claimed another mind! B.T. Bonner presents a soulfully radical, poetic explosion of African-American verse guaranteed to inspire, provoke, educate and challenge an entire Diaspora. Looking through his eyes, everything that you ever thought you knew about poetry and life will be forever changed. Feelin' Blue & Black All Over is an angrily passionate, painfully raw collection of poetry, thoughts, and articles on issues ranging from Politics to Culture, History to Revolution, and Everything in Between. A splash of Cold Water Revolution in the face of America daring us all to turn the next page and wake up from our daze .

Download or read book The Cruellest Journey written by Kira Salak and published by Bantam Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In the beginning, my journeys feel at best ludicrous, at worst insane. This one is no exception.' Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old S gou to Timbuktu - the golden city of the Middle Ages, and, legend has it, the doorway to the end of the world - in Mali, West Africa. Enduring tropical storms, hippos, rapids, the unrelenting heat of the Sahara desert and the mercurial moods of this notorious river, she travelled alone through one of the most desolate regions in Africa where little had changed since British explorer Mungo Park was taken captive by Moors in 1797. Dependent on local people for food and shelter, each night she came ashore to stay in remote mud-hut villages on the Niger's banks, meeting Dogon sorceresses and tribes who were alternately wqelcoming and hostile, so remarkable was the sight of an unaccompanied white woman paddling all the way to Timbuktu. In one instance she barely escaped from men who chased after her in wooden canoes, but she finally arrived, weak but triumphant, at her fabled destination. There, she fulfilled her ultimate goal by buying the freedom of two Bella slaves with gold. THE CRUELLEST JOURNEY is a compelling memoir and a meditation on self-will by a young adventurer without equal, whose writing is as thrilling as her life.