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The storied city the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past

The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, C...

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Main Author: English, Charlie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
Subjects:
Tombouctou (Mali) > Discovery and exploration.
Tombouctou (Mali) > Antiquities.
Mali > History > Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- > Destruction and pillage.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Mali > Tombouctou.
Libraries > Destruction and pillage > Mali > Tombouctou.
Islamic learning and scholarship > Mali > Tombouctou.
Cultural property > Protection > Mali > Tombouctou.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A man of enterprise and genius
  • Part one. Occupation. A seeker of manuscripts
  • A wide but extended blank
  • Hell is not far away
  • The fourth traveler
  • Al-Qaeda to the rescue
  • It shall be mine
  • Ismael's list
  • Part two. Destruction. The armchair explorer
  • A headless horseman
  • The pope of Timbuktu
  • Secret agents
  • Part three. Liberation. Lives of the scholars
  • The terrible twosome
  • King Leopold's paperweight
  • Auto-da-fé
  • Chronicle of the researcher
  • An Indiana Jones moment in real life!
  • Manuscript fever
  • The myth factory
  • Epilogue.

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