Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28 ISBN: 9781315020815 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Humanities; History; African History;
Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the information he had collected. This account was first published in 1830, and records observations of a journey of 4500 miles, of which 3000 were hitherto unknown to Europeans.