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January 5, 2024

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

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Free Download Joshua Hammer, "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1476777411, 1476777403 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 6.9 mb
To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this "fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller" (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief.

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