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.
Genres
- Librarians
- Libraries
- Arabic Manuscripts
- Islamic learning and scholarship
- Cultural property
- Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba."
- Large type books
- Destruction and pillage
- Protection
- History
- Cultural property, protection
- Libraries, africa
- Manuscripts
- Africa, north, history
- nyt:culture=2016-05-08
- New York Times bestseller
- New York Times reviewed
- Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba"
- Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba
- Tuareg Rebellion (Mali : 2012-) fast (OCoLC)fst01907633
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