• Timbuctoo is the fictional account of the illiterate American sailor Robert Adams' true life journey to Timbuktu, and his arrival in Regency London. The...
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  • French-Mauritanian film Timbuctoo, an 1829 poem by William Makepeace Thackeray Timbuctoo (novel), a 2012 novel by Tahir Shah Timbuctoo, a series of children...
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    Timbuctoo, New York, was a mid-19th century farming community of African-American homesteaders in the remote town of North Elba, New York. It was located...
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  • Pearson had also written five novels. Storm Jameson praised his first novel, Gone to Timbuctoo, as "an unusually good first novel, an exciting story, and a...
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    the institution of marriage and hypocrisy. One of his earliest works, "Timbuctoo" (1829), contains a burlesque upon the subject set for the Cambridge Chancellor's...
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  • 1961 - Jim Hunter - The Sun in the Morning 1962 - John Pearson - Gone to Timbuctoo 1963 - David Rubin - The Greater Darkness 1964 - Robin Douglas-Home -...
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  • for a low price in exchange for helping to acclimate the families of Timbuctoo, mostly free black city folk, to a life of farming. To his shame Owen...
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  • some of which have been adapted into modern novels set in the Regency, such as author Tahir Shah's Timbuctoo, an historical romance based on the real-life...
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    recent years. Major English-language works have employed the spelling 'Timbuctoo', and this is considered the correct English form by scholars; 'Timbuctou'...
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  • Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. In Tahir Shah's 2012 historical novel Timbuctoo, based on the 1816 memoir The Narrative of Robert Adams, C. Hoare &...
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