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Episode 169 - The Absurd Search for the Lost City of Timbuktu
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Alexander Gordon Laing had that confident swagger of every European colonialist who went stomping into some new land to civilize and bleed it. So why shouldn’t he cross the entire Sahara Desert to find a lost city in the middle of Africa?
Sources:
The Mammoth Book of Losers by Karl Shaw
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Alexander_Gordon_Laing
http://greatbritishnutters.blogspot.com/2008/08/alexander-gordon-laing-mission-to.html
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17316509.a-scottish-explorer-who-made-his-mark-on-history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Timbuktu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon_Laing
385 つのエピソード
Manage episode 269057216 series 1400089
Alexander Gordon Laing had that confident swagger of every European colonialist who went stomping into some new land to civilize and bleed it. So why shouldn’t he cross the entire Sahara Desert to find a lost city in the middle of Africa?
Sources:
The Mammoth Book of Losers by Karl Shaw
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Alexander_Gordon_Laing
http://greatbritishnutters.blogspot.com/2008/08/alexander-gordon-laing-mission-to.html
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17316509.a-scottish-explorer-who-made-his-mark-on-history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Timbuktu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon_Laing
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