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Title: Timbuktu: A Ladybird Expert Book
Author: CASELY-HAYFORD GUS
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 02/04/2018
Imprint: LADYBIRD
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Timbuktu is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the land once considered the jewel of the medieval world.
Written by curator and cultural historian Gus Caseley-Hayford, this book delves into the rise of the largest empire in West Africa and what made Timbuktu the most significant Saharan desert-port of the age.
You’ll see the Mali Empire in its golden age, teeming with riches, scholars and trade. A history steeped in magicians, epic wars, story-tellers and missing ships. You’ll learn what made Timbuktu so notorious and irresistible to the Emperor, and why centuries later it still enchants the Western World with its beauty, wealth, mystery, intellectual excellence and legacy.
ISBN: 9780718189105
Pages: 56