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Mali is one of the most exciting destinations in West Africa. At its heart is the River Niger which winds through vast areas of Sahelian landscape, linking the fabled city of Timbuktu with the capital, Bamako. Travelers can explore Dogon cliff villages, the famous mosque at Djenne and much more in a country enlivened by colorful markets and arguably the best musi...

About the Author
Ross Velton has traveled extensively in French-speaking countries around the world including western Africa, and has hitchhiked across the Sahara. He is also author of the Bradt guide to Haiti & the Dominican Republic. He lives in Paris, France.


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From Publishers Weekly
In 1985 Hudson, an Englishman, returned to Africa, where he had once spent time working on a Zambian farm, to travel for a year as a "leaf in the wind," with "no pretension of aim and no ambition." This lovely, startling, humorous book records his experiences. Seeking out the most undeveloped areas, Hudson walked the arid plains of Mali, rode a riverboat t...

Amazon.com
In Mali Blues, Belgian-born writer Lieve Joris travels to the West African countries of Senegal, Mauritania, and Mali--a region that to many Westerners seems obscure, even destitute and impoverished. Joris captures the strong will of West Africans, their enduring traditions and heritage, their thumping music, and their unmatched ability to carry on despite hard...

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From Library Journal
The Niger River in West Africa is 2500 miles long?longer than the Danube or the Volga. Jenkins, a writer for Backpacker who ran the Niger from its source to Timbuktu, offers here a first-person account of his journey. Starting from the source, he and a close friend and acquaintances kayak past crocodiles, hippos, and somnolent villages as they go from jungle...

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Ingram
Explore Morocco from the High Atlas to coastal beaches. Information is given on the cultural and political situation. of the country. 100 maps.

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Amazon.com
They say all true stories end in death. Smara, The Forbidden City is a true story. In the fall of 1930, a young Frenchman named Michel Vieuchange staggered out of the Moroccan desert into the town of Tiznit where he collapsed, wracked by dysentery; a few days later, he was dead. Two months earlier, on the evening of September 10, Vieuchange had stripped off his...

Language Notes
Text: French

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From Library Journal
This is a journey with camels from Timbuktu in Mali westward around the edge of a sand dune area and into Mauritania. The book begins with three preliminary trips to the region in which the author presents himself as a low-budget adventurer with a capacity for discomfort and a desire to be (perhaps) the first person to make such a trip. Though there has been...

Language Notes
Text: Italian

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From Publishers Weekly
In 1983, Lawder (The Wild Bird and Other Poems) volunteered for the Peace Corps at the age of 66 and was assigned to teach English in Bamako, the capital of Mali. This arresting memoir of the new life he experienced in West Africa more than makes up for the occasional passages of stilted prose. Lawder's involvement in the lives of the often impoverished pe...

Language Notes
Text: French

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Language Notes
Text: English, Arabic (translation)

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Synopsis
When Peter Hudson set off for Mauritania, he knew it only as a big blank space on a map of Africa. Travelling from the capital, Nouakchott, hardly more than a desert encampment, he found among the oases and ancient caravan towns a people in harmony with their harsh surroundings, and began to understand something of the emerging nation's confrontation with the This book ...

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