The golden trade of the Moors / Edward W. Bovill.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1958.Description: vi, 281 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - DT356 .B68 1958
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القاعة الأجنبية | The Foreign Hall | DT356 .B68 1958 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0012265 |
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.
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