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Author:

Sovich, Nina.

Title:

To the Moon and Timbuktu : a trek through the heart of Africa / Nina Sovich.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

pages . cm

Subject:

Sovich, Nina--Travel--Africa, Northwest.
Africa, Northwest--Description and travel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Niger -- Home. Connecticut childhood -- First freedom -- Oak tree -- Breadcrumbs in Paris -- A victorian traveler -- Nowhere -- My fishes -- Western Sahara -- Coffee in Casablanca -- The cold Atlantic -- The bleak desert -- The love of home -- Trumping comfort -- Slow fear -- Hitchhiking at the border -- Death and dying -- A boy from Bordeaux -- Mauritania -- Mood on the streets -- Nouakchott -- Slate mountains -- The Lothario of Chinguetti -- Fortune tellers -- The good doctor -- The good doctor; part II -- Gnostic life -- Mali -- Bamako -- Boubous -- Campari by the river -- The talisman -- Patience -- Tyranny and the mosque -- The road to Timbuktu -- What's in a name? -- Faking devotion -- Dogon country -- Madness and cocoa butter -- The quiet -- A French doctor -- Panic -- Niger -- Niamey -- Women of the book -- Fashion show -- Free from love -- Home.

ISBN:

0544025954
9780544025950

LCCN:

2012042643

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

VTPD454 -- Cresco Public Library (Cresco)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

BGPE251 -- Perry Public Library (Perry)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)