The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu, and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts, Joshua Hammer
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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu, and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts, Joshua Hammer
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu
Oclc number
943636929
Responsibility statement
Joshua Hammer
Series statement
Thorndike press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Sub title
and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
Summary
Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda
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- Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou
- Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
- Libraries + Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou
- Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou
- HISTORY -- Africa -- West
- Large type books
- Cultural property + Protection -- Mali
- Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage
- Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou
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- Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou
- Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
- Libraries + Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou
- Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou
- HISTORY -- Africa -- West
- Large type books
- Cultural property + Protection -- Mali
- Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage
- Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou
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