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

280 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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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.In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed a...

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informative 89%
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reflective 11%
sad 11%
emotional 6%

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