278 pages
English language
Published Jan. 24, 2016
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu
and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
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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 Qaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
Subjects
- Librarians
- Libraries
- Arabic Manuscripts
- Islamic learning and scholarship
- Cultural property
- Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
- Destruction and pillage
- Protection
- History