The Timbuktu School for NomadsThe Sahara: a dream like far away landscape of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger The English Patient and Star Wars and home to nomadic communities whose ways of life stretch back millennia. Today it's a teeth janglingly dangerous destination where the threat of jihadists lurks just over the horizon. Following in the footsteps of 16th century traveller Leo Africanus Nicholas Jubber went on a turbulent adventure to the forgotten places of North

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elegant prose

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Can one small act change the course of a life

he is spreading disease - and not just any disease

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