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and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

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An edition of The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu (2016)

The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu

and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

by and

  • ★★★★ 4.0 (3 ratings) ·
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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.

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English
Pages
278

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Librarians, Libraries, Arabic Manuscripts, Islamic learning and scholarship, Cultural property, Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba.", Large type books, Destruction and pillage, Protection, History, Cultural property, protection, Libraries, africa, Manuscripts, Africa, north, history, nyt:culture=2016-05-08, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba", Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba, Tuareg Rebellion (Mali : 2012-) fast (OCoLC)fst01907633

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Tombouctou, Mali

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Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-
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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
2016, Simon & Schuster
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2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
025.8/2096623
Library of Congress
Z659 .H22 2016, Z659.H22 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
278 pages
Number of pages
278

Edition Identifiers

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OL26881792M
Internet Archive
badasslibrarians0000hamm
ISBN 10
1476777411, 1476777403
ISBN 13
9781476777412, 9781476777405
LCCN
2015030396
OCLC/WorldCat
913303671

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Work ID
OL20032541W

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Work Description

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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