At the time of Napoleon, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt from Basel found a job as an English spy in the Middle East. Burckhardt was supposed to scout the caravan route through the Sahara to the legendary Timbuktu - but everything turned out differently! Under his alias Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdallah, the young man with his ability to speak and adapt immersed himself in the world of the Bedouins and provided more than just a trail through the desert. Let's discover the crazy story of the adventurer who had a lasting influence on Lawrence of Arabia, among others.
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