The Discovery of Timbuktu: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Geographic Myth
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2002.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : This paper seeks to study interactions between geographical discovery and mythical representation of a place, using the case of Timbuktu. The accounts of four European travellers who reached Timbuktu in the 19th century raise a question: did experience supplant myth when travellers laid eyes on Timbuktu for the first time, or did the myth persist in travellers’ descriptions of the city?
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This paper seeks to study interactions between geographical discovery and mythical representation of a place, using the case of Timbuktu. The accounts of four European travellers who reached Timbuktu in the 19th century raise a question: did experience supplant myth when travellers laid eyes on Timbuktu for the first time, or did the myth persist in travellers’ descriptions of the city?
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