Mission Timbuktu
Local gemWhen
Thursday, 22 October 2026
5, Horsington House, Horsington, Templecombe BA8 0EG
Price guide
Not listed — worth a quick ask
About this event
In 1826, an intriguing but doomed explorer, Alexander Gordon Laing, became the first Christian to report from Timbuktu, an international quest then. A former Guardian photographer (1992-2002), for whom she first went to the Sahara (in 2001), editor of The Tuareg or Kel Tamasheq and a History of the Sahara (2015), with an MA in […]
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