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2002
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mythical place travel Timbuktu exploration Mali discoverySujets proches
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Isabelle Surun, « The Discovery of Timbuktu: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Geographic Myth », L’Espace géographique, ID : 10670/1.8dcb5e...
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This paper seeks to study interactions between geographical discovery and mythical representation of a place, using the case of Timbuktu. The accounts of four European travellers who reached Timbuktu in the 19th century raise a question: did experience supplant myth when travellers laid eyes on Timbuktu for the first time, or did the myth persist in travellers’ descriptions of the city?
