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001			ocn943636929
003			OCoLC
005			20260224205324.0
008			260221s2016 miuba##ed||||#000 0deng d
020			_a9781410490032 _q(hardcover)
050	1	0	_aZ659 _b.H22 2016
082	0	0	_a025.82096623 _223
100	1		_aHammer, Joshua, _d1957- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : _band their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / _cJoshua Hammer.
250			_aLarge print edition.
264		1	_aFarminton Hills, Mich : _bThorndike press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. _c2016.
300			_a429 pages (large print) : _bmap, illustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2content
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
340			_nlarge print _2rdafs
500			_aEdition statement from cover.
520			_a"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." -- _cunedited summary from book.
650	0		_aLibraries _xDestruction and pillage _zMali _zTombouctou.
650	0		_aCultural property _xProtection _zMali.
650	0		_aManuscripts, Arabic _zMali.
651	0		_aMali _xHistory _yTuareg Rebellion, 2012- _xDestruction and pillage.
655	7		_aLarge print books. _2lcgft
999			_c456 _d456