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Cailliй, Renй
French explorer in Africa. He was the first European to visit Timbuktu and return. The son of poor French peasants, he was obsessed with the idea of seeing Timbuktu. After 11 years of preparation, he reached the desert city, disguised as a Muslim trader, and remained there two weeks. [eng] |
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Discoverers Web: Cailliй
Renй-Auguste Cailliй (1799-1838) got the honor of being the first European (at least in modern times) to visit Timbuktu and return alive. Timbuktu, the name evokes exotic images, in the early nineteenth century even more than now. Europeans had heared about the city through writers like Leo Africanus and Ibn Battuta, telling of a rich, golden city, across the Sahara on the Niger river. But Timbuktu was also a forbidden city, laying in an area where being a christian might well be enough to get one killed. Mungo Park had passed the city in 1805, during his descent of the Niger, and Alexander Laing had visited it crossing the desert from Tripoli, but both had died before returning to the coast. A Frenchman called Renй-Auguste Cailliй took up the challenge. [eng] |
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Кайе Огюст Рене (Коилье)
(1799 или 1800-1838) — французский путешественник. Впервые в истории европейских путешествий нового времени пересек Западную Сахару, исследовал восточную окраину песчаной пустыни Эль-Джуф, плато Эль-Эглаб, Эрг-Игиди, оазисы Араван, Тауденни, Тафилалет. Первым сообщил Европе достоверные сведения о Томбукту — торговом городе на Нигере, «королеве пустыни», как его называли в Европе. [rus] |
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Caillie, Rene. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
French explorer in Africa. He was the first European to visit Timbuktu and return. The son of poor French peasants, he was obsessed with the idea of seeing Timbuktu. After 11 years of preparation, he reached the desert city, disguised as a Muslim trader, and remained there two weeks. [eng] |
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1Up Info - Cailliй, Renй (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
1799–1838, French explorer in Africa. He was the first European to visit Timbuktu and return. The son of poor French peasants, he was obsessed with the idea of seeing Timbuktu. After 11 years of preparation, he reached the desert city, disguised as a Muslim trader, and remained there two weeks. [eng] |
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