Joshua Hammer: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu [2016] hardback Condition:New sometimes lyrical

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we will be facing a series of unstoppable catastrophes by the time our preschoolers graduate from college

To those around her she was a loyal subject

'Confronts a series of deep and vexing moral questions

In a future less than fifty years away

Joshua Hammer: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu [2016] hardback Condition:New sometimes lyricalTo save precious centuries old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven. 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 down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu