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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

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 Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.

Main Author: Hammer, Joshua, 1957- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
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 > Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- > Destruction and pillage.
Summary: 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 Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
Physical Description: 278 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.
ISBN: 9781476777405
1476777403
Author Notes: Joshua Hammer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu . He has written for The New York Times Magazine , GQ , Smithsonian , The Atlantic , The New Yorker , National Geographic , and Outside . He lives in Berlin.

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