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The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu

Joshua Hammer, Paul Boehmer · 2016

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Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.

Book details

Year
2016
Language
English
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Editions
3
Pages
278
ISBN
9781476777412

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