From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Dreaming spires of gold, under the desert sun
The founder, the founding and the legends
The city, its site and its neighborhood
The Niger's course and meaning
Precursors: the empires of the sun
Mansa Musa and the first golden age of Timbuktu
The First Tuareg interregnum
The coming of the Songhai
The rise of Askia al=hajj Mohamed and the second golden age
The underpinnings of wealth
Life and learning in the city of gold
The second golden age and the intellectual tradition
The coming of the Moroccans
The long march and the Pasha's conquest of Timbuktu
Appendix 1: Commonly used tales
Appendix 3: Glossary of tribes and cultures