Routledge Library of Arfican Studies. Travels and Narratives

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Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28

by Rene Caillie

Published 16 February 1968

Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the information he had collected. This account was first published in 1830, and records observations of a journey of 4500 miles, of which 3000 were hitherto unknown to Europeans.