The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
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Published:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
278 pages : map ; 23 cm
Status:
East Hampton Adult Nonfiction
025.8 HAM
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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.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali.
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali.
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
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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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781476777405, 1476777403
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Description
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.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Hammer, J. (2016). The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hammer, Joshua, 1957-. 2016. The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts. Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hammer, Joshua, 1957-, The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hammer, Joshua. The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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