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About Timbuktu | Early History | Mansa Moussa | Golden Age
Invasion to Independence | Threats to Timbuktu | Bibliography

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Bibliography
Caillié, Réné. Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and Across the Great Desert to Morocco Performed in the Years 1824 –1828. Colburn and Bentley, 1830.

Davidson, Basil.  Africa in History. Simon&Schuster, Touchstone Books, 1996.
The Lost Cities of Africa. Little, Brown, 1970.
West Africa Before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850. Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.

Dubois, Felix. Timbuctoo the Mysterious. (Trans. Diane White), Heinemann, 1897.

Gardner, Brian. The Quest for Timbuktu. Cassell, 1968.

Jackson, John G. Introduction to African Civilizations. Citadel Press, 1994.

Shillington, Kevin. History of Africa. St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Shinnie, Margaret. Ancient African Kingdoms. Edward Arnold, 1965.


About Timbuktu | Early History | Mansa Moussa | Golden Age
Invasion to Independence | Threats to Timbuktu | Bibliography

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