Gone To Timbuktu
Sophy RobertsOn the art of travel. Books, podcasts, masterclasses, miscellanies.
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Snow in August
“The great guide isn’t just a writer’s fixer on the road; they are your friend, your questioner, your light, your darkness, your vanity, your sadness, your madness — and vice versa. They can be everything you are not, and therefore everythi...
Start with a map
“There are two Timbuktus. One is the administrative centre of the Sixth Region of the Republic of Mali… And then there is the Timbuktu of the mind — a mythical city in a Never-Never Land, an antipodean mirage, a symbol for the back of beyon...
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Author. Journalist. Passionate about the art of travel, in books, films, photography and more. Can't keep up with the posting while I write a new book, but will come back to Substack space soon.
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