Title

Timbuctoo the mysterious / by Felix Dubois ; translated from the French by Diana White ; with one hundred and fifty-three illustrations from photographs and drawings made on the spot and eleven maps and plans.

Author

Dubois, Félix, 1862-1945,

Publication

London : William Heinemann, 1897.

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• Full text available via HathiTrust (Yale University copy)

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heinemann (Firm), publisher.
• T. and A. Constable, printer.
• White, Diana, 1868-1950,

Description

xi, 377, [1] pages : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Uniform Title

Tombouctou la mystérieuse. English.

Alternative Title

Tombouctou la mystérieuse.

Subjects

• Niger River > Description and travel
• Tombouctou (Mali) > History
• Tombouctou (Mali) > Description and travel
• Sudan > Description and travel

Note

• Translation of: Tombouctou la mystérieuse.
• Includes index.
• "Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press."--printer statement, colophon, foot of page 377.
• Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. From Paris to the Niger -- ch. 2. The Niger -- ch. 3. The Valley of the Niger -- ch. 4. The towns of the Niger -- ch. 5. Jenne -- ch. 6. The Songhois -- ch. 7. The Moors in the Sudan -- ch. 8. Jenne, yesterday and to-day -- ch. 9. From Jenne to Timbuctoo -- ch. 10. Timbuctoo -- ch. 11. Timbuctoo across the centuries -- ch. 12. The commerce and life of Timbuctoo -- ch. 13. The University of Sankoré -- ch. 14. Politics and literature -- ch. 15. Europe and Timbuctoo -- ch. 16. The French conquest -- Index.

Call Number

Sc 916.62-D (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)

Author

Dubois, Félix, 1862-1945, author.

Title

Timbuctoo the mysterious / by Felix Dubois ; translated from the French by Diana White ; with one hundred and fifty-three illustrations from photographs and drawings made on the spot and eleven maps and plans.

Publisher

London : William Heinemann, 1897.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 916.62-D (copy 1) (accession no. B593939) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy 1 in Sc 916.62 is in the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection.

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Full text available via HathiTrust (Yale University copy)

Added Author

White, Diana, 1868-1950, translator.

Heinemann (Firm), publisher.

T. and A. Constable, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Added Title

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Research Call Number

Sc 916.62-D (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)

BKV (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)