The golden trade of the Moors /
Bovill, E. W.
The golden trade of the Moors / Edward W. Bovill. - London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1958. - vi, 281 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
A rewriting of the author's Caravans of the old Sahara. Reprinted (with corrections) September 1958.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index.
1. Arid nurse of lions - 2. Carbuncles and Gold - 3. Romans and garamantes - 4. The Tuareg - 5. The Arabs - 6. The Almoravids - 7. The Gold of Ghana - 8. Mansa Musa - 9. Ibn Battuta - 10. The Songhai - 11. The discovery of Guinea - 12. Leo Africanus - 13. Mulai Ahmed EL-Mansur - 14. Taghaza - 15. The Desert Army - 16. The invasion of the Sudan - 17. The fall of Songhai - 18. EL-Dzehebi - 19. Wangara - 20. The Niger - 21. Usuman and Fodio - 22. The last of the Caravans -- Maps : I. Musa Mali, Lord of the Negroes of Guinea - from a panel of the Catalan map of Charles V - II. Roman Africa - III. The Africae Tabula Nova of Ortelius 1570 - IV. The Africae Nova Descriptio of Blaeu 1665 - V. The Middle Niger - VI. The Husa States - VII. The principal Caravan Routes of the Nineteenth Century - VIII. North-West Africa.
Sudan (Region)--History.
DT356 / .B68 1958
The golden trade of the Moors / Edward W. Bovill. - London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1958. - vi, 281 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
A rewriting of the author's Caravans of the old Sahara. Reprinted (with corrections) September 1958.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-259) and index.
1. Arid nurse of lions - 2. Carbuncles and Gold - 3. Romans and garamantes - 4. The Tuareg - 5. The Arabs - 6. The Almoravids - 7. The Gold of Ghana - 8. Mansa Musa - 9. Ibn Battuta - 10. The Songhai - 11. The discovery of Guinea - 12. Leo Africanus - 13. Mulai Ahmed EL-Mansur - 14. Taghaza - 15. The Desert Army - 16. The invasion of the Sudan - 17. The fall of Songhai - 18. EL-Dzehebi - 19. Wangara - 20. The Niger - 21. Usuman and Fodio - 22. The last of the Caravans -- Maps : I. Musa Mali, Lord of the Negroes of Guinea - from a panel of the Catalan map of Charles V - II. Roman Africa - III. The Africae Tabula Nova of Ortelius 1570 - IV. The Africae Nova Descriptio of Blaeu 1665 - V. The Middle Niger - VI. The Husa States - VII. The principal Caravan Routes of the Nineteenth Century - VIII. North-West Africa.
Sudan (Region)--History.
DT356 / .B68 1958