[PDF.66ld] The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

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 | #73205 in Books |  Simon Schuster |  2016-04-19 |  2016-04-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.37 x1.00 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

 | Simon Schuster

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The Librarians of Timbuktu to Know|By Joan E. Davis|Completely fascinating piece of non-fiction!! This is a must read for historians and political scientists!

This is for the million and millions of people who know little or nothing about a part of Africa with great intellectual history. The reader also will learn the source of ISIS's ideas which are not original w| |**New York Times Book Editors' Choice**|

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To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen 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 ...

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