Books by Tahir Shah
language
English
review 1: Timbuctoo is grand adventure story in the tradition of Dumas, Robert Louis Stephenson, or more recently David Ball [Empires of Sand] or Bartle Bull [Cafe on the Nile]. It differs from them in that it's based on what is essentially a true story. Robert Adams is a shipwrecked sail...
language
English
review 1: Based on truth, and impeccably researched, this is the story of a sailor found close to death on the streets of London in December 1815. Robert Adams, an American, is invited to narrate his tale in front of an open audience, and soon all of high society is clamouring to hear how...