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PeriodicalLarge Print Book
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. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2016.
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Southington Library - Adult  LP 025.82 HAM    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium large print. rda
Series Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-426)
Summary 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.
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.
Large type books.
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba" (OCoLC)fst00694994
Tuareg Rebellion (Mali : 2012- ) (OCoLC)fst01907633
Cultural property -- Protection. (OCoLC)fst00885019
Destruction and pillage. (OCoLC)fst01906941
Islamic learning and scholarship. (OCoLC)fst00979968
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Librarians. (OCoLC)fst00997301
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage. (OCoLC)fst00997392
Manuscripts, Arabic. (OCoLC)fst01008278
Mali. (OCoLC)fst01204327
Mali -- Tombouctou. (OCoLC)fst01220600
Chronological Term 2012
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781410490032 (hardback)
1410490033 (hardcover)
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