and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
429 pages
English language
Published Nov. 15, 2016
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.
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.
Title is silly, but the story and the judgement is not. Depressing and uplifting.
Title is silly, but the story and the judgement is not. Depressing and uplifting.
