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Ebook About 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.Book To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa Review :
I had a hard time with this Antonson book. The others are far superior. To go to Timbuktu for a haircut was only a minor segment in the book. As is the case with the other Antonson books, the story here is about the journey. More of the story, I feel, should have been about the people who we did get to know only a small portion.I appreciate Antonson’s efforts to save the manuscripts. Right now I would have preferred to see an effort to save Zak. We all grew up thinking of Timbuktu as a magical far away place that somehow was important I history (and that was before "Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego?"). The author is an experienced travel writer before he takes off on sort of a whim to visit this mythical city. He gives the impression that he has traveled in out of the way places, but in the first part of the book he spends a lot of pages griping about the inconvenience and unpredictability of transportation and lodging (or lack thereof) in getting to Timbuktu. His troubles are aided and abetted by his fixer, Mohammed. The book gets better after he leaves Timbuktu, with a fresh haircut, and heads out to hike in the rugged outback of Mali. There he bonds with his guide and his cook and their families and gets to see life as it really is, not as the imagined glories of Timbuktu. Timbuktu is a place of the imagination and a place that has been ravaged from its centuries earlier glory as a center of learning and repository of valuable manuscripts. Even before reading the book, I worried about the care of these valuable ancient pieces of learning. Now, with the invasion of fundamentalists who do not value learning, I worry more (the author was there after one takeover and before another). The book raises lots of issues. For me, the most important was the role of tourism and questioning what journey one is on. Read Online To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa Download To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa PDF To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa Mobi Free Reading To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa Download Free Pdf To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa PDF Online To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa Mobi Online To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa Reading Online To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey through West Africa Read Online Rick Antonson Download Rick Antonson Rick Antonson PDF Rick Antonson Mobi Free Reading Rick Antonson Download Free Pdf Rick Antonson PDF Online Rick Antonson Mobi Online Rick Antonson Reading Online Rick AntonsonRead The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild--Creating a Champion By Nintendo
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