Title The storied city : the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past / Charlie English.

Publication Info.	New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
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Description	400 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page [346]-382) and index.
Contents	Prolog: Enterprise and genius -- Occupation -- A seeker of manuscripts -- A wide but extended blank -- Hell is not far away -- The fourth traveler -- Al-Qaeda to the rescue -- Frogs and rosbifs -- Ismael's list -- Destruction -- The armchair explorer -- The headless horseman -- The pope of Timbuktu -- Secret agents -- Liberation -- Lives of the scholars -- The terrible twosome -- King Leopold's paperweight -- Auto-da-fé -- Chronicle of the seeker -- An Indiana Jones moment in real life! -- Manuscript fever -- The myth factory -- Epilog.
Summary	The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable. -- from dust jacket.
Subject	Tuareg Rebellion (Mali : 2012-) (OCoLC)fst01907633
	Tombouctou (Mali) -- Discovery and exploration.
	Tombouctou (Mali) -- Antiquities.
	Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
	Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
	Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
	Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
	Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
	Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00810745
	Cultural property -- Protection. (OCoLC)fst00885019
	Destruction and pillage. (OCoLC)fst01906941
	Discoveries in geography. (OCoLC)fst00894950
	Islamic learning and scholarship. (OCoLC)fst00979968
	Libraries -- Destruction and pillage. (OCoLC)fst00997392
	Manuscripts, Arabic. (OCoLC)fst01008278
	Mali. (OCoLC)fst01204327
	Mali -- Tombouctou. (OCoLC)fst01220600
	Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
	Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Chronological Term	2012
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9781594634284 (hardcover)
	1594634289 (hardcover)

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