The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

Author(s): Joshua Hammer

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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.


 


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Joshua Hammer was born in New York and graduated from Princeton University with a cum laude degree in English literature. He joined the staff of Newsweek as a business and media writer in 1988, and between 1992 and 2006 served as a bureau chief and correspondent-at-large on five continents. Hammer is now a contributing editor to Smithsonian and Outside, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and has written for publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Conde Nast Traveler, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Atavist. He is the author of three non- fiction books and has won numerous journalism awards. Since 2007 he has been based in Berlin, Germany, and continues to travel widely around the world.


 

 


 

General Fields

  • : 9781760632458
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : December 2017
  • : January 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Joshua Hammer
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 025.8/2096623
  • : 336
  • : HBT