The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Format
Book
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
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Forks - Nonfiction (Adult)
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LC Subjects
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba"
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali.
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali.
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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.