Timbuctoo the Mysterious [Christmas Summary Classics]

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference

• Author: Felix Dubois
• ISBN: 1230000037127
• Publisher: Zhingoora Books
• Publication: December 6, 2012
• Language: English

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FELIX DUBOIS
Timbuctoo the Mysterious
I.—From Paris to the Niger
Felix Dubois has a considerable reputation in France and on the European Continent generally as an African explorer. His sphere of travel has been confined to the Dark Continent north of the Equator. He first published in 1894 "Life on the Black Continent," but his reputation rests mainly on "Timbuctoo the Mysterious," issued in 1897, of which two English translations have appeared. Dubois' style is vivacious and picturesque, with a vein of poetic feeling in some passages. His "Early History of Northern Africa and Timbuctoo," of the architecture of which he has made a special study, is lucid; but in discussing the extension of the British and French spheres of influence and protectorates during the past century he betrays a certain measure of Gallic Anglophobia.