The Golden Mirage | René Caillié’s Impossible Journey

Описание: In 1828, René Caillié did the impossible: he reached Timbuktu and came back alive.
This is the true story of René Caillié, the French explorer who crossed the Sahara Desert disguised as a Muslim pilgrim to reach the legendary city of Timbuktu — a place Europe called the “Golden Mirage.”

At a time when the Sahara was a deadly border between worlds, dozens of Europeans had tried and failed. Many never returned. Caillié had no army, no fortune, no official expedition. Only determination, preparation, and a dangerous secret identity.

• Why Timbuktu became one of the greatest myths in European imagination
• How Caillié transformed himself into “Abdallah” to survive
• The brutal reality of desert caravans, hunger, scurvy, and sandstorms
• The truth about Timbuktu — and how it shattered Europe’s golden fantasy
• The skepticism he faced in Paris after surviving the impossible
• How this journey quietly opened the door to later colonial expansion in West Africa

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