The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts

In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians...

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1. Verfasser: Hammer, Joshua (VerfasserIn)
Format: UnknownFormat
Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, New Delhi Simon & Schuster April 2016
Ausgabe:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Schlagworte:
Haïdara, Abdel Kader Yéro 1953- > Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba > Manuscripts, Arabic > Cultural property > Protection > Libraries > Destruction and pillage > Islamic learning and scholarship > Librarians > Mali > History > Timbuktu > Arabisch > Handschrift > Rettung
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