| Description Of Item | A hand drawn map of North Africa in a scrapbook from the collection of John Ritchie, relating to Francis Rennell Rodd’s book People of the Veil: being an account of the habits, organisation and history of the wandering Tuareg tribes which inhabit the mountains of Air or Asben in the central Sahara, in a scrapbook from the collection of John Ritchie. Text on the mount reads: titled ‘North Africa. From ‘People of the Veil’ – F. Rennell Rodd.’; labelled ‘Fez, Atlas, Sijilmasa, Tunis, Tripolo. Ghaddames, Aujila, Siwa, Cairo, Tuat, Ahaggar, Ghat, Fezzan, Murzuk, Kufra, river Nile, Mecca, Tegaza, Walata, Tademekka, Air, Kawar, Tibesti, Senegal, Timbuctoo, Gao, river Niger, Katsina, Kano, Bornu, L. Chad, Ennedi, Wadai, Darfur’. |