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An edition of The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu (2016)

The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu

and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

Large print edition.

by and

  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 8 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

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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429

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Librarians, Libraries, Arabic Manuscripts, Islamic learning and scholarship, Cultural property, Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba.", Large type books, Destruction and pillage, Protection, History, Cultural property, protection, Libraries, africa, Manuscripts, Africa, north, history, nyt:culture=2016-05-08, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba", Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba, Tuareg Rebellion (Mali : 2012-) fast (OCoLC)fst01907633
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Tombouctou, Mali
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Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-

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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
2016
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu Lib/E: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
2016, Simon & Schuster
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Series
Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Copyright Date
2016

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Dewey Decimal Class
025.8/2096623
Library of Congress
Z659 .H22 2016b

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Pagination
429 pages (large print)
Number of pages
429

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OL27212583M
Internet Archive
badasslibrarians0000hamm_c3g0
ISBN 10
1410490033
ISBN 13
9781410490032
LCCN
2016011454
OCLC/WorldCat
951723875, 943636929

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