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Author Hammer, Joshua, 1957- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  025.82 HAMMER    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  025.82 HAMMER    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  025.82 HAM    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  025.82 HAMMER    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  025.8 HAMMER    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  025.8209 HAMMER    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  025.8 HAMMER, JOSHUA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  025.8 HAM    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  025.8 HAM    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  025.82 HAM    Check Shelf

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description 278 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-263) and index.
Summary 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.
Subject Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali.
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
ISBN 9781476777405 (hardcover)
1476777403 (hardcover)
9781476777412 (trade pbk.)
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