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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     English, Charlie, author.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      English, Charlie, author.       by title:      The storied city : t...         MARC Display

The storied city : the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past / Charlie English. by 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. ISBN:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 966.23 En Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 966.23 En Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 966.23 En Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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