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...WHITE MONK OF TIMBUCTOO- William Seabrook-Harcourt, Brace...
Three years ago Traveler Seabrook told the U. S. something about Timbuctoo's No. 1 Citizen. Père Yakouba; last week he published the old man's informal but official biography. Written in Author Seabrook's usual man-to-mannish style, The White Monk of Timbuctoo is a racily sympathetic account of an unusual career. Devout Catholics will read it, if at all, as a warning; plain readers, as vicarious adventure...
...languages and for mixing with native Africans made him useful. He took to medieval Timbuctoo like a duck to water, sturdily resisted all attempts to send him elsewhere. When threatened with a transfer to Palestine, he announced that the only Jew he had ever loved was Jesus. Biographer Seabrook plays down the spiritual Père Yakouba's spiritual labors in Timbuctoo but gives him high marks as a popular character...
Sued for Divorce. William Buehler Seabrook, 48. voyageur. writer (The Magic Island, Adventures in Arabia, Jungle Ways'), confessed cannibal; by Kate Edmondson Seabrook; in Atlanta. Charge: undisclosed...
...Arabian mountains. Sympathetically curious if not credulously enthusiastic about magic, he went to Haiti for a year to find out about voodoo. He has also visited whirling dervishes at their monastery in Tripoli, Yezidi devil-worshipers in Kurdistan. Tall, heavy of build and face, with near Hitlerian mustache, Traveler Seabrook looks hopelessly lethargic, is not. He says: "I am not brave. Only full of curiosity." Other books: Adventures in Arabia, The Magic Island...