Tombouctou la mystérieuse
Tombouctou la mystérieuse is a French travel book by Félix Dubois, published in Paris by Flammarion in 1897 for a general reading public curious about West Africa. Its wood-engraved pictures show mud-walled houses, narrow sandy lanes and robed townspeople in the Sudanese city of Timbuktu, with flat earth tones and dense hatching that a designer could borrow for textured, earthy backgrounds.
