The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu Manuscripts

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu ManuscriptsTo save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Oceans Eleven in this fast paced narrative that ispart intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out and out thriller (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief. 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

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