Download or read book Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco, 1824-28 written by Rene Caillie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the information he had collected. This account was first published in 1830, and records observations of a journey of 4500 miles, of which 3000 were hitherto unknown to Europeans.