Timbuctoo
Timbuctoo is a series of 26 children's books, written and illustrated by Roger Hargreaves, better known for his Mr Men series. It was published from 1978–79. The books tell the stories of a group of animals, each of whom is named after the sound that their particular animal makes. An animated series, produced by Flicks Films for Cosgrove Hall Films, of Timbuctoo was shown on CITV, ARBC and CBBC in late 1996, narrated by Ronnie Corbett.
Books
The original set of 25 books named after their main character were published in 1978 and 1979, along with two Timbuctoo Annuals. A further set of story books was published in 1979. In 1997 some books were reprinted with new illustrations to accompany the television show, along with a new character Bray.
1978
Four of the books (Woof, Trumpet, Buzz and Oink) were republished in 1993.
Timbuktu (disambiguation)
Timbuktu is a city in Mali.
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Timbuctoo (novel)
Timbuctoo is the fictional account of the illiterate American sailor Robert Adams' true life journey to Timbuktu, and his arrival in Regency London. The novel is written by Anglo-Afghan author, filmmaker, and adventurer Tahir Shah. It was released on July 5, 2012 by Secretum Mundi Publishing.
The full title of the book is Timbuctoo: Being a singular and most animated account of an illiterate American sailor, taken as a slave in the great Zahara and, after trials and tribulations aplenty, reaching London where he narrated his tale. The story takes place between 1810—when Adams was shipwrecked—and the Spring on 1816, when he set sail for his home in Hudson, New York.
Background
In the early 1990s, while "in the bowels of the London Library", the author, Tahir Shah, says he noticed an old book propping up a water pipe. Surprised that such an old and apparently valuable volume should be being used for this purpose, Shah pulled it down, and read it.
The book was The Narrative of Robert Adams, the tale of an illiterate American sailor who had been shipwrecked on the west coast of Africa at Capo Blanco in 1810. At a time when all the major European powers were eagerly dispatching their best explorers to capture and then sack Timbuktu (among them the likes of Mungo Park and Hugh Clapperton), the only people not searching for the African El Dorado, was the fledgling United States of America. And so it was all the more surprising when an illiterate American sailor was discovered half naked and starving on the streets of London in the winter of 1815, claiming rather nonchalantly, that he had been to Timbuktu. He had been taken there as a white slave, having been captured by Toureg warriors.
Podcasts:
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by Groucho Marx
Timbuctoo
by: Groucho MarxMarvin Hamlisch. That must be you, eh? Oh, this is
Marvin Hamlisch. I'm gonna sing you a song written by
my good friend Harry Ruby. It's called Timbuctoo. Are
you ready to play this song.
Hamlisch: Always ready!
Long ago in old New Amsterdam,
there lived a cousin of the Duke of Buckingham.
His friends knew Buckingham to be a sport,
so they cut the 'ham' and called him Buck for short.
One day Buck met a little cluck, and he wispered
"Duckie, Dear",
in accents loud and clear,
"Please marry me, my dear".
She replied "I will be your bride, but there must be no
delay".
So they were buckled up that day.
Soon they had a lot of little Bucks,
and you know how fast they grow.
There was one Buck, two Bucks, three Bucks, four Bucks,
no one knows how many more Bucks.
Mrs. Buck would play the ukulele every morn till two,
and while old man Buck was singing,
all the little Bucks were buck-and-winging.
When they had eggs for breakfast, Buck was out of luck,
each Buck would eat a dozen eggs, and a dozen cost a
buck.
The landlord came to raise Buck's rent,
but he couldn't raise a sou.
So he backed up the motor truck,
and he said goodbye, said goodbye, he said goodnight,
he said goodbye, and he s..
...to Timbuctoo!.
Thank you.
I muffed a few words in there, but it's such a crazy