The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer
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TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster , 2016Description: 278 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781476777405
- Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba"
- Libraries -- -Destruction and pillage -- -Mali -- -Tombouctou
- Manuscripts, Arabic -- -Mali -- -Tombouctou
- Cultural property -- -Protection -- -Mali
- Islamic learning and scholarship -- -Mali -- -Tombouctou
- Librarians -- -Mali -- -Tombouctou
- Mali -- -History -- -Tuareg Rebellion, 2012 -- -Destruction and pillage
- 025.8209 HAM
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| Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | 025.8209 HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 063806 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.
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 Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
English.
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