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To the Moon and Timbuktu : a trek through the heart of Africa

Summary: Catching her reflection in a window, Sovich no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth traveling staring back at her. She packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure. In this book, Sovich takes readers on a fast-paced trek through Western Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, bringing their textures and flavors into vivid relief. Her journey reveals that sometimes we must pursue that distant glimmer on the horizon in order to find the things we value most.

Record details

ISBN: 0544025954 (cloth)
ISBN: 9780544025950 (cloth)
Physical Description: vi, 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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Publisher: Boston ; New York : New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308).

Formatted Contents Note:

The Escape -- Hotel in Dakhla -- Connecticut childhood -- First freedom -- Oak tree -- Breadcrumbs in Paris -- A victorian traveler -- Nowhere -- My fishes -- Western Sahara -- Coffee in Casablanca -- The cold Atlantic -- The bleak desert -- The love of home -- Trumping comfort -- Slow fear -- Hitchhiking at the border -- Death and dying -- A boy from Bordeaux -- Mauritania -- A boy from bordeaux -- Mood on the streets -- Nouakchott -- Slate mountains -- The Lothario of Chinguetti -- Fortune tellers -- The good doctor -- The good doctor; part II -- Gnostic life -- Mali -- Bamako -- Boubous -- Campari by the river -- The talisman -- Patience -- Tyranny and the mosque -- The road to Timbuktu -- What's in a name? -- Faking devotion -- Dogon country -- Madness and cocoa butter -- Paris -- The quiet -- A French doctor -- Panic -- Niger -- Niamey -- Women of the book -- Fashion show -- Free from love -- Home.