Morocco to Timbuktu : An Arabian Adventure—Episode 1 / DCD Rights Limited.

[Place of publication not identified] : DCD Rights Limited, [2017]

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2017.

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Gold was in high demand in North Africa, and its source was the gold mines in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting long routes being forged across the desert. Alice Morrison hitches a ride in a crowded taxi of locals, Alice passes through the Islamic city of Fes, where she stays in a caravanserai; catches the Marrakech Express to the market town of Marrakech, where she learns to treat leather; treks in snow and storms across the mighty Atlas Mountains dotted with Berber villages; travels through valleys lined with casbahs; and enlists the help of Berbers to cross the Jbel Saghro Desert and reach the ancient city of Sijilmasa—once a great trading post and sanctuary for merchants arriving from Timbuktu.

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May 20, 2019

9 - 12, Academic/AP

Tangier: "From Europe to Africa" (5:05); Tangier to Fes (2:49); Fes: The Ancient Capital of Morocco (5:45); Traditional Saharan Cooking (4:57); Fes to Marrakech (6:09); Stories of Marrakech (2:02); Marrakech to Tamedaght (5:29); Ancient Salt Mines (4:00); Following the Ancient Traders (2:43); Jbel Saghro: Walking With Nomads (8:34); Jbel Saghro to Sijilmasa (8:32); Credits: Morocco to Timbuktu (0:35);

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