The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu
Subtitle: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
By: Joshua Hammer
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781410490032
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Librarians; Libraries; Arabic Manuscripts; Islamic learning and scholarship; Cultural property; Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."; Large type books; Destruction and pillage; Protection; History
Description: Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.