The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
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2016
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In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were crumbling in the trunks of desert shepherds. His goal: to preserve this crucial part of the world’s patrimony in a gorgeous library. But then Al Qaeda showed up at the door.
Subjects
Subjects
Audiobooks
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Cultural property
Cultural property -- Protection
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali
Destruction and pillage
History
Islamic learning and scholarship
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Large type books
Librarians
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Libraries
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage
Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Protection
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Cultural property
Cultural property -- Protection
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali
Destruction and pillage
History
Islamic learning and scholarship
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Large type books
Librarians
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Libraries
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage
Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Protection
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9781476777405
9781681681436
9781681681429
9781410490032
9781681681436
9781681681429
9781410490032
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Audiobooks
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Cultural property -- Protection
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali
History
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Large type books
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Cultural property -- Protection
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali
History
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Large type books
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou
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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu : And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts [electronic resource] / Joshua Hammer
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / by Joshua Hammer
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / by Joshua Hammer
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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu
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and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
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Cultural property
Destruction and pillage
History
Islamic learning and scholarship
Large type books
Librarians
Libraries
Manuscripts, Arabic
Protection
Destruction and pillage
History
Islamic learning and scholarship
Large type books
Librarians
Libraries
Manuscripts, Arabic
Protection
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