9781410490032, titled "The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 18, 2016), cover price $32.99 |
About this edition: To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean s Eleven.
9781476777405, titled "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" | Simon & Schuster, April 19, 2016, cover price $26.00
9781681681429, titled "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, April 19, 2016), cover price $29.99 |
About this edition: In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were crumbling in the trunks of desert farmers.