For nearly eight years as the monthly columnist for Outside magazine, and in his prize-winning books, Mark Jenkins has held fans spellbound together with his riveting accounts of expeditions to remote parts of the globe. In To Timbuktu, he sets out together with three friends to strive their first descent of the Niger River, hoping ...
In Mali you may float past hippopotami whilst sailing down the River Niger, greet 300 herdsmen atop brilliant white camels, or stand on an escarpment looking out over the mystical cliff villages of the Dogon people. This new edition features thoroughly updated information on everything from elephant ...
Mali Blues takes acclaimed writer Lieve Joris to West Africa. Traveling in Senegal, Mauritania and Mali, Joris locates countries troubled by drought, rebel uprisings and ethnic conflict. But the Africans she meets are survivors, fascinating individuals charting new ways of living between tradition and modernity. The story of Malinese blues ...