René Auguste Caillié
1799-1838
In 1827 the French Geographic Society offered a reward for the first European to reach Timbuktu and return. Already accustomed to the hardship of transatlantic...
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René Caillié
Born November 19, 1199, Mauze, France Died c. 1838, La Badere, France
Dead or alive, the prize shall be mine,” so wrote 17-year-old René Caillié in his...
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The French explorer Auguste René Caillié (1799-1838) was the first modern European to reach the famous Sudanic cities of West Africa, Timbuktu, and Djenné and to return and tell a...
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René Auguste Caillié
René Caillié
Auguste René Caillié