TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hammer,Joshua
TI  - The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts 
SN  - 9781476777405
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - Mali
KW  - Tombouctou
KW  - Manuscripts, Arabic
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Protection
KW  - Islamic learning and scholarship
KW  - Librarians
KW  - History
KW  - Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -