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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu( )
Author: Hammer, Joshua
ISBN:978-1-4767-7743-6
Publication Date:Apr 2016
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Book Format:Ebook
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**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice** To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven in this "fast-paced narrative that is...part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller" (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader...
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