Episode 169 - The Absurd Search for the Lost City of Timbuktu

Alexander Gordon Laing had that confident swagger of every European colonialist who went stomping into some new land to civilize and bleed it. So why shouldn’t he cross the entire Sahara Desert to find a lost city in the middle of Africa?

Sources:

The Mammoth Book of Losers by Karl Shawhttps://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Alexander_Gordon_Laing

http://greatbritishnutters.blogspot.com/2008/08/alexander-gordon-laing-mission-to.htmlhttps://www.thenational.scot/news/17316509.a-scottish-explorer-who-made-his-mark-on-history/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Timbuktuhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon_Laing