To Timbuktu
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ISBN: 0688163424 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, September 1998
With the help of an intuitive African guide, the author and three friends set out to sail down the Niger River to Timbuktu, meeting with killer bees, hippopotami, crocodiles, blind bushmen, and a hundred naked women along the way.
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Traveling with Mark Jenkins is a mixture of the daring and the dangerous, the dramatic and the absurd. Here, he and three friends, with the aid of a remarkably intuitive African guide, set out to attempt the first descent of the Niger River, the legendary city of Timbuktu their final goal. Along the way, they are attacked by killer bees, charged by hippos, stalked by crocodiles. They pass through villages where every female child has undergone a clitorectomy, stumble upon a group of completely blind men living in the bush, dance with a hundred naked women. That Jenkins reaches his goal, riding alone across the Sahara on a motorcycle, stands in sharp contrast to what befell those who first tried to find Timbuktu and whose fates the author interweaves with the narrative of his own adventures.
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