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The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the Worlds Most Precious Manuscripts
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Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (May 18, 2016); titled "The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts"
9781410490032 | details & prices | 395 pages | List price $32.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
from Simon & Schuster (April 19, 2016); titled "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts"
9781476777405 | details & prices | 278 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.84 lbs | List price $26.00
CD/Spoken Word
With Paul Boehmer (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Highbridge Co (April 19, 2016); titled "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts"
9781681681429 | details & prices | 5.75 × 6.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.48 lbs | List price $29.99
About: 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.
About: 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.