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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston ; New York : New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013Description: vi, 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0544025954 (cloth)
  • 9780544025950 (cloth)
Subject(s):
Contents:
The Escape -- Hotel in Dakhla -- 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 -- A boy from bordeaux 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 -- Paris -- The quiet -- A French doctor -- Panic -- Niger -- Niamey -- Women of the book -- Fashion show -- Free from love -- Home.
Summary: Catching her reflection in a window, Sovich no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth traveling staring back at her. She packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure. In this book, Sovich takes readers on a fast-paced trek through Western Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, bringing their textures and flavors into vivid relief. Her journey reveals that sometimes we must pursue that distant glimmer on the horizon in order to find the things we value most.
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Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Catching her reflection in a window spotted with Paris rain, she no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth travelling in Cairo, Lahore, and the West Bank staring back at her. Unwittingly, she had followed life's script, and now she needed to cast it out.Inspired by female explorers like Mary Kingsley, who explored Gabon's jungle in the 1890s, and Karen Blixen, who ran a farm in Kenya during World War I, Sovich packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure. To the Moon and Timbuktu takes readers on a fast-paced trek through Western Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, bringing their textures and flavors into vivid relief. On Sovich's travels, she encounters rough-and-tumble Chinese sailors, a Venezuelan doctor working himself to death in Chinguetti, indifferent French pensioners RVing along the coast, and a close-knit circle of Nigerien women who adopt her into their fold, showing her the promise of Africa's future.This lyrical memoir will transport you to the breathtaking landscapes of West Africa, whose stark beauties will instill wonder in even the most experienced traveler. Sovich's journey reveals that sometimes we must pursue that distant glimmer on the horizon in order to find the things we value most.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308).

The Escape -- Hotel in Dakhla -- 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 -- A boy from bordeaux 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 -- Paris -- The quiet -- A French doctor -- Panic -- Niger -- Niamey -- Women of the book -- Fashion show -- Free from love -- Home.

Catching her reflection in a window, Sovich no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth traveling staring back at her. She packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure. In this book, Sovich takes readers on a fast-paced trek through Western Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, bringing their textures and flavors into vivid relief. Her journey reveals that sometimes we must pursue that distant glimmer on the horizon in order to find the things we value most.

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