The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

Joshua Hammer

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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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 th...

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