To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.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...
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| Title | : | The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts |
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| ISBN | : | 1476777403 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 pages |