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Enlarge cover image for The bad-ass <mark class='oils_SH title proper'>librarians</mark> <mark class='oils_SH title proper'>of</mark> <mark class='oils_SH title proper'>Timbuktu</mark> : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts Book

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

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 desctuction at the hands of Al Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.

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  • ISBN: 9781476777405
  • ISBN: 1476777403
  • ISBN: 9781476777412
  • ISBN: 1476777411
  • Physical Description: print
    278 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.
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

Available copies

  • 27 of 27 copies available at Westchester Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Pelham Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 27 total copies.
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Town of Pelham Public Library 025.8 H (Text) 31023151120917 Nonfiction Available -

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