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Hammer, Joshua, 1957-

The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer. - Large print edition. - 429 pages (large print) : map, illustrations ; 22 cm -

Edition statement from cover.

"To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven. 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 incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, became on of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers." --

ISBN: 9781410490032

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Libraries --Destruction and pillage --Mali --Tombouctou.
Cultural property --Protection --Mali.
Manuscripts, Arabic --Mali.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mali --History --Destruction and pillage.--Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Large print books.

LC Class. No.: Z659 / .H22 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 025.82096623