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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

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Hammer, Joshua, 1957-
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2016
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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.
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Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Cultural property
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali
Destruction and pillage
History
Islamic learning and scholarship
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Librarians
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Libraries
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage
Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Military
Nonfiction
Protection
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9781476777405
9781681681436
9781476777436
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