The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer.

Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands of Al Qaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hammer, Joshua, 1957-
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Libraries > Destruction and pillage > Mali > Tombouctou.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Mali > Tombouctou.
Cultural property > Protection > Mali.
Mali > History > Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- > Destruction and pillage.
Islamic learning and scholarship > Mali > Tombouctou.
Librarians > Mali > Tombouctou.
Physical Description:278 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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