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English, a Royal Geographic Society Fellow and veteran journalist at the Guardian, will have listeners on the edge of their seats with this gripping tale of an "African El Dorado": Timbuktu. English (The Snow Tourist), who first journeyed to Africa at age 19, became interested in this West African center of medieval scholarship when he reported on the 2012 al-Qaeda-linked jihadist invasion of the nation of Mali and subsequent occupation of Timbuktu. European explorers struggled for centuries to cross the Sahara Desert and reach Timbuktu, a city rumored to be rich...Log In or Sign Up to Read More