Timbuktu
The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold
The history of Timbuktu, the city on the southern edge of the Sahara that was for centuries a centre of trade, gold and Islamic learning, and that became a byword in Europe for the remote and unreachable.
Marq and Sheila had used Timbuktu as a base while researching Sahara, and came away convinced the city deserved a book of its own. They paid particular attention to its long tradition of a tolerant, open Islam.
Marq’s own website called the book Timbuktu: Africa’s Fabled City of Gold, but the book itself, like the library records, has The Sahara’s Fabled City of Gold.
Editions
- 2007 - Walker & Company, New York
- 2007 - McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
- 2008 - Ediciones Península, Barcelona