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Author
Hammer, Joshua, 1957-
Title
The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu [sound recording] : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer.
Publication Info.
[Minneapolis, MN] : HighBridge Audio,cp2016.
℗2016
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https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1679839~S1
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95th Street Adult Books on CD Nonfiction
025.8209662 HAM
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Description
8 audio discs (9 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical rda
audio file CD audio rda
Note
Unabridged.
Performer
Read by Paul Boehmer.
Summary
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.
Subject
Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali.
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Cultural property -- Protection.
Destruction and pillage.
Islamic learning and scholarship.
Librarians.
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
Genre
Audiobooks.
Added Author
Boehmer, Paul.
ISBN
9781681681429
1681681420
Music No.
DD24293 Recorded Books
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