TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hammer,Joshua
TI  - The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts 
SN  - 9781410490032 
AV  - Z659  .H22 2016
U1  - 025.82096623  23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Farminton Hills, Mich
PB  - Thorndike press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. 
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - Mali
KW  - Tombouctou
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Protection
KW  - Manuscripts, Arabic
KW  - History
KW  - Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-
KW  - Large print books.
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Edition statement from cover
N2  - "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." --
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