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The Book Smugglers Of Timbuktu : The Quest For This Storied City And The Race To Save Its Treasure
Charlie English
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Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world???s most mythologized places and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend.To Westerners, the name ???Timbuktu??? long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for discovery tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, climate and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval centre of learning, it was home to tens ??? according to some, hundreds ??? of thousands of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology and astronomy. When al-Qaeda linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding.Relying on extensive research and first-hand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places and the myths from which it has become inseparable.
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| Author | Charlie English |
| Publisher | William Collins |
| Language | English |
| Binding Type | Paper Back |
| Non Fiction | History & Politics |
| ISBN13 | 9780008126650 |
| SKU | BK 0017498 |
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