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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu - The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures (Hardcover)
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu - The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 720
You Save R171 (27%)
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Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the
world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a
contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save
its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda,
added another layer to the legend. The fabled city of Timbuktu has
captured the Western imagination for centuries. The search for this
'African El Dorado' cost the lives of many explorers but Timbuktu
is rich beyond its legends. Home to many thousands of ancient
manuscripts on poetry, history, religion, law, pharmacology and
astronomy, the city has been a centre of learning since medieval
times. When jihadists invaded Mali in 2012 threatening destruction
to Timbuktu's libraries, a remarkable thing happened. A team of
librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the precious
manuscripts into hiding. Based on new research and first-hand
reporting, Charlie English expertly tells this story set in one of
the world's most fascinating places, and the myths from which it
has become inseparable.
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