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Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu

Kira Salak

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Kira Salak is a young woman with a history of seeking impossible challenges. She grew up relishing the exploits of the great Scottish explorer Mungo Park and set herself the daunting goal of retracing his fatal journey down West Africa's Niger river for 600 miles to Timbuktu. In so doing she became the first person to travel alone from Mali's Old Segou to "the golden city of the Middle Ages," and, legend has it, the doorway to the end of the world. In the face of the hardships she knew were to come, it is amazing that she could have been so sanguine about her journey's beginning: "I have the peace and silence of the wide river, the sun on me, a breeze licking my toes, the current as negligible as a faint breath. Timbuktu seems distant and unimaginable." Enduring tropical storms, hippos, rapids, the unrelenting heat of the Sahara desert and the mercurial moods of this notorious river, she traveled solo through one of the most desolate regions in Africa where little had changed since Mungo Park was taken captive by Moors in 1797. Dependent on locals for food and shelter, each night she came ashore to stay in remote mud-hut villages on the banks of the Niger, meeting Dogan sorceresses and tribes who alternately revered and reviled her- so remarkable was the sight of an unaccompanied white woman paddling all the way to Timbuktu. Indeed, on one harrowing stretch she barely escaped harm from men who chased her in wooden canoes, but she finally arrived, weak with dysentery, but triumphant, at her destination. There, she fulfilled her ultimate goal by buying the freedom of two Bella slaves with gold. This unputdownable story is also a meditation on self-mastery by a young adventuress withoutequal, whose writing is as thrilling as her life.

STRONG BROWN GOD PA 91

Ted Morgan

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Wonderful 5 out of 5 stars.
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A wonderfully readable history of the Niger River, and the fascinating personalities that made that history.

Very good 5 out of 5 stars.
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The book is very good and easy to read (includes maps and a good index). It is true that the author only shows some aspects of its subject matter (mostly european discovery, conquest and colonisation) and thus the book may be considered a bit limited in its scope, but otherwise it would have probably missed the target becoming a tedious scholarly volume. Nevertheless it is a very interesting introduction to the area and gives a good insight of the way the french and the british faced and handled their imperial aspirations.

I also strongly reccomend the excellent book on the River Congo by Peter Forbath, which follows a similar pattern and which will help you complete a vast panorama on West Africa.

another whizbang from ted morgan 4 out of 5 stars.
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They crossed reproachable deserts. They were asserted by thieves and left for bread. They went berserkers! They even killed. And they went hungry. Allies in a hard and lonely mission, they quarreled and indulged each other with homosexuality, living in separate tents and communicating by litter. They ran out of blood and drank their own urine to stay alive.

Sound fantastic? No, The Strong Brown God is the true story of a handful of obsessed explorers who fought man and beast to find and open the mighty, righteous Neger River.

Foregoing is a joke. I have noticed that Amazon has "lost" some of my reviews, and this is a silly review to trace their methods.

Sorry folks. This is nevertheless a good book and I recommend anything by Sanche de Gramont, aka Ted Morgan.

The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States and Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party

Martin R. Delany

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With an introduction by Toyin Falola, the Frances Higginbothom Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin, this new edition of these two provocative and intriguing nineteenth-century documents sheds much light on the black nationalism movement in the context of African American history.

The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold (Peoples of Africa)

Roderick James Mcintosh

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This book provides the first comprehensive history of the peoples of the Middle Niger written by an English-speaking scholar. "The Island of Gold" was the medieval Muslim and later European name for a fabled source of gold and other tropical riches. Although the floodplain of the Niger river lies far from the goldfields, the mosaic of peoples along the Middle Niger created a wealth in grain, fish and livestock that supported some of Africa's oldest cities, including Timbuktu. These ancient cities of the region that came to be known as Western Sudan were founded without outside stimulation and their inhabitants long resisted the coercive, centralized state that characterized the origins of earliest towns elsewhere. In this book, Roderick James McIntosh uses the latest archeological and anthropological research to provide a bold overview of the distant origins of life for the inhabitants of the Middle Niger, and an explanation for their social evolution. He shows, for instance, the difficulties the peoples faced in adapting to an unpredictable climate, and how their particular social organization determined the unusual nature of their responses to that change. Throughout the book oral traditions are integrated into the story, providing vivid insights into the inhabitants' complex culture and belief systems.

History of the Urhobo People of Niger Delta

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History of The Urhobo People of Niger Delta is the most comprehensive compilation and study of various aspects of the history of the Urhobo people of Nigeria's Niger Delta. It begins with an examination of the prehistory of the region, with particular focus on the Urhobo and their close ethnic neighbour, the Isoko. The book then embarks on a close assessment of the advent of British imperialism in the Western Niger Delta. History of The Urhobo People of Niger Delta also probes the arrival and impact of Western Christian missions in Urhoboland. Urhobo history is notable for the sharp challenges that the Urhobo people have faced at various points of their di?cult existence in the rainforest and deltaic geographical formation of Western Niger Delta. Their history of migrations and their segmentation into twenty-two cultural units were, in large part, e?orts aimed at overcoming these challenges. History of The Urhobo People of Niger Delta includes an evaluation of modern responses to challenges that confront the Urhobo people, following the onrush of a new era of European colonization and introduction of a new Christian religion into their culture. The formation of Urhobo Progress Union and of its educational arm of Urhobo College is presented as the Urhobo response to modern challenges facing their existence in Western Niger Delta and Nigeria. History of The Urhobo People of Niger Delta extends its purview to various other fragments of the Urhobo historical and cultural experience in modern times. These include the di?culties that have arisen from petroleum oil exploration in the Niger Delta in post-colonial Nigeria.

Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Susan J. Rasmussen

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Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude'. The evening curing rituals of the possessed, featuring drumming and song, take place before an audience of young men and women, who joke and flirt as the ritual unfolds. In her analysis of this tolerated but unofficial cult, Susan Rasmussen analyses symbolism and aesthetic values, provides case studies of possessed women, and reviews what local people think about the meaning of possession.

Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-organizing Landscape (Case Studies in Early Societies)

Roderick J. McIntosh

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The cities of West Africa's Middle Niger, only recently brought to the world's attention, make us rethink the 'whys' and the 'wheres' of ancient urbanism. They present the archaeologist with a novelty; a non-nucleated, clustered city-plan with no centralized, state-focused power. This book explores the emergence of these cities in the first millennium B.C. and the evolution of their hinterlands from the perspective of the self-organized landscape. Cities appeared in a series of profound transforms to the human-land relations and this book illustrates how each transform marked a leap in complexity.

Niger in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)

Alison Behnke

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A deception 2 out of 5 stars.
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I found the description too generalized, it does not give much more than the informations available on-line, in different web pages. However. the maps are useful.

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An overview of Niger's geography and history, along with an exploration of the political, economic, and cultural landscape of this West African nation. A former French colony located in the Sahel region of Africa, Niger is one of the poorest--and hottest--countries on earth. This edition includes comprehensive text with strong curriculum ties, beautiful full-color photography throughout, and interesting, detailed sidebars.

Warriors, Merchants, and Slaves: The State and the Economy in the Middle Niger Valley, 1700-1914

Richard Roberts

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Un planeta llamado Níger.(breves notas sobre gobierno, geografía, cultura)(TT: A planet called Niger.)(TA: brief notes on government, geography, culture)(Artículo Breve): An article from: Siempre!

Jorge V. Jaime

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on August 29, 2001. The length of the article is 847 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Un planeta llamado Níger.(breves notas sobre gobierno, geografía, cultura)(TT: A planet called Niger.)(TA: brief notes on government, geography, culture)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Jorge V. Jaime
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: August 29, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 48 Issue: 2515 Page: 44

Article Type: Artículo Breve

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