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Author Hammer, Joshua, 1957- author.

Title The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
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Summary Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of desctuction at the hands of Al Qaida militants to the safety of southern Mali.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Simon & Schuster 2016 Available via World Wide Web.
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.
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
ISBN 9781476777436 (electronic bk.)
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