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Major Alexander Gordon Laing and the Timbuktu Mission
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200 years ago, Major Alexander Gordon Laing wrote a letter from Timbuktu, 'the first written from that place by any Christian’. This talk recounts Laing’s extraordinary, if woeful Saharan journey.
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