The Timbuktu School for Nomads by Jubber, Nicholas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Praise for The Timbuktu School for Nomads Also by Nicholas Jubber Map Title Page Copyright Contents Dedication Prologue PART ONE – The Middle of Nowhere

1. City of Gold 2. Dinner with the Blue Men 3. White Man’s Grave The School for Nomads – Lesson One: Baggage

PART TWO – City

4. The God-Blessed Lair of Pigeon Shit 5. Learning to Love the Glottal Stop 6. Death of a Camel The School for Nomads – Lesson Two: Riding

PART THREE – Mountain

7. The Sultan’s Road to Azrou 8. Market Forces 9. The Hunt for Aziza’s Lost Cattle The School for Nomads – Lesson Three: Tracking

PART FOUR – Dunes

10. Poets of the Sahara 11. The Last Colony in Africa 12. Picnic in the Desert The School for Nomads – Lesson Four: Camp

PART FIVE – Plateau

13. Iron-Ore Train to the Adrar 14. Dancing with Nomads 15. Libraries in the Sand The School for Nomads – Lesson Five: Study and Play

PART SIX – Urban Nomads

16. Fishing and F***ing 17. City of Spells The School for Nomads – Lesson Six: Lore

PART SEVEN – Plain

18. Paradise Lost 19. Cowboys and Animists 20. A Short Walk in the Gondo Bush The School for Nomads – Lesson Seven: Water

PART EIGHT – River

21. Masters of the River 22. Spirits of the Niger The School for Nomads – Lesson Eight: Score 23. Lights Out on the Sahara

PART NINE – The Middle of Nowhere (Revisited)

24. Timbuktu the Broken 25. Licking the Desert’s Wounds

Postscript Glossary Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Picture Section Footnotes

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