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Timbuctoo the mysterious

Title
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. London : William Heinemann, 1897.
Author
  1. Dubois, Félix, 1862-1945

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Additional authors
  1. White, Diana, 1868-1950
  2. Heinemann (Firm), publisher.
  3. T. and A. Constable, printer.
Description
  1. xi, 377, [1] pages : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  1. Niger River > Description and travel
  2. Tombouctou (Mali) > History
  3. Tombouctou (Mali) > Description and travel
  4. Sudan > Description and travel
Contents
  1. 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
  1. Sc 916.62-D (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)
Note
  1. Translation of: Tombouctou la mystérieuse.
  2. Includes index.
  3. "Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press."--printer statement, colophon, foot of page 377.
  4. Last page blank.
Provenance (note)
  1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Author
  1. Dubois, Félix, 1862-1945, author.
Title
  1. 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
  1. London : William Heinemann, 1897.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Provenance
  1. 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
  1. Copy 1 in Sc 916.62 is in the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection.
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  1. NYPL Digital Collections
  2. Full text available via HathiTrust (Yale University copy)
Added author
  1. White, Diana, 1868-1950, translator.
  2. Heinemann (Firm), publisher.
  3. T. and A. Constable, printer.
  4. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research call number
  1. Sc 916.62-D (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)
  2. BKV (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)
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