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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu - And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts (Paperback)
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu - And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts (Paperback)
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List price R307
Loot Price R251
Discovery Miles 2 510
You Save R56 (18%)
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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 that were
crumbling in the trunks of desert shepherds. His goal: to preserve
this crucial part of the world's patrimony in a gorgeous library.
But then Al Qaeda showed up at the door. Joshua Hammer writes about
how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist from the legendary city of
Timbuktu, became one of the world's greatest smugglers by saving
the texts from sure destruction. With bravery and patience, Haidara
organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of
the city to the safety of southern Mali. His heroic heist is a
reminder that ordinary citizens often do the most to protect the
beauty of their culture. His story is one of a man who, through
extreme circumstances, discovered his higher calling and was
changed forever by it.
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