The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2016.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
Status
Sequim - Large Print Nonfiction
LP 025.8209 HAMMER
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LP 025.8209 HAMMER
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LC Subjects
Biographies.
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali.
Haïdara, Abdel Kader Yéro, -- 1953-
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Large type books
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali.
Haïdara, Abdel Kader Yéro, -- 1953-
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Large type books
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
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-426).
Description
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers. In 2012, thousands of Al Qaeda militants from northwest Africa seized control of most of Mali, including Timbuktu. They imposed Sharia law, chopped off the hands of accused thieves, stoned to death unmarried couples, and threatened to destroy the great manuscripts. As the militants tightened their control over Timbuktu, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali.