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Frank T. Kryza
Honorary Consul General of Tunisia, WACDFW Member
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DATE & TIME |
November 18, 2006
10:00 AM - Program
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LOCATION |
The Melrose Hotel
3015 Oak Lawn Avenue
Dallas, TX 75219
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PRICE
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$25 - Members & Guests
$5 will be added to every ticket sold 48 hours before the event and for walk-ins at the event. |
In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers -- and fortune hunters -- than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by Europeans since the Middle Ages, held the promise of wealth and fame for the first explorer to make it there. In 1824, the French Geographical Society offered a cash prize to the first expedition from any nation to visit Timbuktu and return to tell the tale. Unwilling to trust in the slender chances of a lone explorer, the British sent several on their way.
Author and historian Frank T. Kryza will provide insight into this fascinating time with a look at his emotionally charged, action-packed book, The Race for Timbuktu. This narrative history of the first phase of colonization in Africa offers a close, personal look at the extraordinary people and pivotal events of nineteenth-century exploration that changed the course of history and the shape of the modern world.
Frank Kryza has spent eleven years in Africa and traveled much of the territory described in The Race for Timbuktu. Author of The Power of Light, he is a twenty-year veteran of the energy industry and a former Connecticut newspaper reporter and editor. He lives in Dallas and is the Honorary Consul of Tunisia and a member of the World Affairs Council. He graduated from Yale in 1972 and holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management (1982).
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