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Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure: Episode Three

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Morocco To Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure

07/07/2018 GMT

Episode Three

Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure

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Alice Morrison journeys along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco to Timbuktu.

This week Alice takes on the vast Sahara in an epic camel trek over the dunes.  She then visits Tamegroute, where she finds a hidden library of ancient books.

This week Alice takes on the vast Sahara in an epic camel trek over the dunes.  She then visits Tamegroute, where she finds a hidden library of ancient books, including manuscripts by a 16th-century Malian scholar.

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Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.

Alice Morrison, Arabist and explorer, journeys along Africa's infamous salt roads from Morocco via the Sahara Desert to the legendary city of Gold, Timbuktu.
Timbuktu - a place so mysterious, mythical and far, far away that it has become a legendary destination. Alice Morrison, Arabist, writer, explorer and Marrakech resident, follows what was once one of the world's richest trading networks - the infamous salt roads - across north Africa from the top of Morocco to the fabled sandstone city of Timbuktu. Trekking 2,000 miles across some of the deadliest landscapes on earth, Alice journeys deep into the history, culture and civilisation of both ancient and modern north Africa..

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