The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts /
Hammer, Joshua, 1957-
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - 278 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands of Al Qaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
9781476777405 1476777403 9781476777412 (trade pbk.) 1476777411 (trade pbk.)
2015030396
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Libraries--Destruction and pillage--Mali--Tombouctou.
Manuscripts, Arabic--Mali--Tombouctou.
Cultural property--Protection--Mali.
Islamic learning and scholarship--Mali--Tombouctou.
Librarians--Mali--Tombouctou.
Mali--History--Destruction and pillage.--Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - 278 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands of Al Qaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
9781476777405 1476777403 9781476777412 (trade pbk.) 1476777411 (trade pbk.)
2015030396
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Libraries--Destruction and pillage--Mali--Tombouctou.
Manuscripts, Arabic--Mali--Tombouctou.
Cultural property--Protection--Mali.
Islamic learning and scholarship--Mali--Tombouctou.
Librarians--Mali--Tombouctou.
Mali--History--Destruction and pillage.--Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-