Word: timbuctoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WHITE MONK OF TIMBUCTOO- William Seabrook-Harcourt, Brace...
...skittish market within two months. It was clearly his turn to be reassuring. Flatly he stated that there will be no change in U. S. gold policy, no devaluation of the dollar. And he twitted: "The financiers seem to have taken seriously reports from South Africa, China and Timbuctoo as to what I am going to do over each weekend. Why those places should know exactly what I am going to do is beyond me. I just wonder where some of those rumors come from...
...Adventure tells of a flight across the Sahara, from Paris to Timbuctoo and back. Seabrook wanted to go to Timbuctoo to see Pére Yakouba. famed renegade French priest (their first meeting is described in Jungle Ways). Flight Captain Rene Wauthier of the French Army, then on furlough, offered to fly him there in his plane. Third member of the party was Marjorie Worthington, U. S. writer. In luxurious comfort they slid down across France, bumped over the Pyrenees, skimmed the Mediterranean. North Africa looked much like southern France. Then the Sahara began. Crossing the Sahara nowadays...
...Morning after leaving Bidon 5 they flew peacefully on to Timbuctoo's landing-field, Khabara. were forced down by a sandstorm, had to anchor the plane with sandbags, shelter themselves in a trench under it. The storm over, they flew peacefully Timbuctoo's on to landing-field, Timbuctoo Khabara. (Traveler Seabrook winds up his book with bitter remarks about the present impossibility of landing anywhere nearer a desired destination than "baseball fields and suburbs.") Not all Saharan oases are natural, Seabrook discovered. Some have been fed for centuries by long underground aqueducts which pick up moisture...
...Royal Road to Romance, The Glorious Adventure, New Worlds to Conquer) have sold more than 250,000 copies, not counting $1 reprints. In his Wright-powered Stearman biplane, The Flying Carpet, piloted by one Moye Stephens, Halliburton rode leisurely from London to Manila. On the way they stopped at Timbuctoo, spent two months with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, visited Petra, Bagdad, India's Taj Mahal, claimed the first airplane photograph of Mt. Everest (Halliburton publishes a blurry picture which he says was taken at 18,000 ft.), were entertained by Dyak headhunters. For vicarious thrills of thoroughly...