The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu
and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Word Count
69,500 words, Guess
Page Count
278 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebadasslibrarians0000hamm
- ISBN-101476777411
- ISBN-101476777403
- ISBN-139781476777412
- ISBN-139781476777405
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2015030396
- OCLC Control Number913303671
- Better World Books9781476777412
- Better World Books9781476777405
- Open LibraryOL26881792M
Classifications
- DDC025.8/2096623
- LCCZ659 .H22 2016
- LCCZ659.H22 2016
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.
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.
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