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26%OFFJoshua Hammer - The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World´s Most Precious Manuscripts - 9781476777412 - V9781476777412
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World´s Most Precious Manuscripts

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Description for The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World´s Most Precious Manuscripts Paperback. To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3JJPN; BGX; GLC; GLP; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 16. .
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 were crumbling in the trunks of desert shepherds. His goal: to preserve this crucial part of the world's patrimony in a gorgeous library. But then Al Qaeda showed up at the door. Joshua Hammer writes about how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist from the legendary city of Timbuktu, became one of the world's greatest smugglers by ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781476777412
SKU
V9781476777412
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-11

About Joshua Hammer
Joshua Hammer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Outside. He lives in Berlin.

Reviews for The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World´s Most Precious Manuscripts
Journalist Josh Hammer deftly offers up a string of interconnected tales, ranging from ancient Islamic scholarship to in-fighting in US political circles to French military campaigns and the rise of radical extremists throughout Africa. . . . But always front and center is the fate of these manuscripts and how their very existence puts a lie to the hateful extremism ... Read more

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