5/28/2023 The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the... by Joshua HammerRead Now"Boehmer powerfully delivers this chilling history of altruism, of survival in the face of religious fundamentalism." - AudioFile It is also the story of a man who, through extreme circumstances, discovered his higher calling and was changed forever by it. This real-life thriller is a reminder that ordinary citizens often do the most to protect the beauty and imagination of their culture. With bravery and patience, he organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, became one of the world's greatest and most brazen smugglers by saving the texts from sure destruction. His goal was to preserve this crucial part of the world's patrimony in a gorgeous library. 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 were crumbling in the trunks of desert farmers.
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