Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
X
PageMenu- Searching:-
Page content

Catalogue Display

The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / by Joshua Hammer.

The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / by Joshua Hammer.
bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu :
This book 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.

Item Information
Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date
025.82/HAM
 Adult Non-Fiction   Port Macquarie . Available .  
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 552141
. Catalogue Record 552141 ItemInfo Beginning of record . Catalogue Record 552141 ItemInfo Top of page .
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
Record Number 552141
ISBN 9781760294489
Author Hammer, Joshua
Title The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts / by Joshua Hammer.
Publication details Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin, 2016.
Pagination etc. 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary Note This book 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.
Subject Tuareg Rebellion (Mali : 2012-)
Libraries -- Destruction and pillage -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Manuscripts, Arabic -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Cultural property -- Protection -- Mali
Islamic learning and scholarship -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Librarians -- Mali -- Tombouctou
Cultural property -- Protection
Destruction and pillage
Islamic learning and scholarship
Librarians
Manuscripts, Arabic
Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-Destruction and pillage
Links to Related Works
Subject References:
Authors:
.
Add Title to Basket Catalogue Record 552141
.
Catalogue Information 552141 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 552141 Top of page .

Reviews


This item has not been rated.    Add a Review and/or Rating552141