Website review: Jonathan Yardley
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laodan discovered 29 months ago
Timbuktu
Enlightened Europeans were dreaming about robbing and stealing all the gold, silver and precious stones from anyone non white...
via Arts&Letters, in the WashingtonPost by Jonathan Yardley:
"""" ... Finding it, and laying claim to its vast wealth, became an obsession in Europe and, in particular, in England, where, in 1788, a small group of influential men, led by the celebrated botanist Sir Joseph Banks, founded the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa, a continent almost entirely unknown to the Age of Enlightenment. ...""" URL: Timbuktu... once fired the imagination of Europe with dreams of gold...
