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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer.

By: Publisher: Farminton Hills, Mich : Thorndike press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. 2016Edition: Large print editionDescription: 429 pages (large print) : map, illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781410490032
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 025.82096623  23
LOC classification:
  • Z659  .H22 2016
Summary: "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." -- unedited summary from book.
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Large Print Large Print Learning Library Adult Large Print Adult Services Area LP 025.82096623 Ham (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 28721826727226

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"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." -- unedited summary from book.

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