The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

Author(s): Joshua Hammer

Popular History

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.


 


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General Fields

  • : 9781760632458
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : 296.0
  • : December 2017
  • : 198mm X 128mm
  • : January 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 336
  • : Paperback
  • : Joshua Hammer