"Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco (V.2)" by René Caillié, M. Jomard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide ...

Published in 1830, this two-volume work documents the pioneering expedition of the French explorer Réné Caillié (1799-1838) to Timbuktu.

In the early decades of the nineteenth century European interest in Africa was reaching its height. Places such as Timbuctoo, seemingly as remote as the moon, were seen as ...