429 pages
English language
Published Jan. 24, 2016
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu
and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
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Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.
Subjects
- Librarians
- Libraries
- Arabic Manuscripts
- Islamic learning and scholarship
- Cultural property
- Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
- Large type books
- Destruction and pillage
- Protection
- History