Tombuktu and its sisters

This book is a revival of an ancient tradition of travel literature, to be a record of travel events and impressions about tribes, sects, and customs, in cities that heard many contradictions, and were in the past luminous beacons, and titles that a seeker of knowledge or trade cannot miss. The book takes us back to history, in a contemporary language, making us live the events as if they are in several cities on the edges of the African desert. Over two decades, the author Abdullah ولد محمدي rode his camel and traveled to several cities on the edges of the African desert. From Timbuktu, the jewel of the mysterious desert, where the sultans of gold and the treasures of the lines and the "mystery gate," and the steps of searching for a lost tribe, to Arawan, which recounts a tragedy that befell it and threw it away from the caravan route, then to Kano, the stronghold of Nigerian Muslims and the city of saints and generals, then to Chinguetti, the storehouse of rare manuscripts and a source of desert scholars, to Hejaz, and Agmat, which lives in the memory of the Andalusian prince, the captive Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad. Cities that today are difficult to return to because of what has happened to them from the complexities of wars, and others living in the circle of oblivion, facing the calamities of time with a long history.