01770cam a2200397 i 4500 2730378952 TxAuBib 20260415120000.0 150803s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015030396 9781476777405 hardcover $26.00 1476777403 hardcover $26.00 (OCoLC)913303671 TxAuBib rda Hammer, Joshua. The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / Joshua Hammer. Bad-ass librarians of Tombouctou, The. Badaass librarians of Timbuktu. Badaass librarians of Tombouctou. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. 278 pages : map ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Map on front end sheets. Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index. Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of desctuction at the hands of Al Quaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali. 20260415. Centre de documentation et de recherches "Ahmed Baba.". Libraries Destruction and pillage Mali Tombouctou. Manuscripts, Arabic Mali Tombouctou. Cultural property Protection Mali. Islamic learning and scholarship Mali Tombouctou. Librarians Mali Tombouctou. Mali History Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- Destruction and pillage.