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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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English, Charlie, author.
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Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Tombouctou (Mali) -- Discovery and exploration.
Tombouctou (Mali) -- Antiquities.
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
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The storied city : t...
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The storied city : the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past / Charlie English.
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English, Charlie, author.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
Subjects
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali -- Tombouctou.
Tombouctou (Mali) -- Discovery and exploration.
Tombouctou (Mali) -- Antiquities.
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Destruction and pillage.
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9781594634284 (hardcover) :
1594634289 (hardcover)
Description:
400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prolog: Enterprise and genius -- Occupation -- A seeker of manuscripts -- A wide but extended blank -- Hell is not far away -- The fourth traveler -- Al-Qaeda to the rescue -- Frogs and rosbifs -- Ismael's list -- Destruction -- The armchair explorer -- The headless horseman -- The pope of Timbuktu -- Secret agents -- Liberation -- Lives of the scholars -- The terrible twosome -- King Leopold's paperweight -- Auto-da-fé -- Chronicle of the seeker -- An Indiana Jones moment in real life! -- Manuscript fever -- The myth factory -- Epilog.
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The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable. --from dust jacket.
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
966.23 En
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10/05/2024
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Kihei Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
966.23 En
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McCully-Moiliili Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
966.23 En
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