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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, by Joshua Hammer
How could I resist a book with this title? Even without the title, I would have been tempted by this book. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts, by Joshua Hammer tells the story of Abdel Kader Haidara and the people of Timbuktu and the surrounding areas as they worked to rescue irreplaceable manuscripts when the region fell to Islamist terrorists...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from Edelweiss for review consideration.
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