The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the... by Joshua Hammer

Joshua Hammer Narrated by: Paul Boehmer Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins Release date: 04-19-16. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the incredible story of how Haidara. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Outside. Agent: Flip Brophy, Sterling Lord Literistic. Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu And Their Race to Save the Worlds Most Precious Manuscripts By: Joshua Hammer. Joshua Hammer is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. Hammer does a service to Haidara and the Islamic faith by providing the illuminating history of these manuscripts, managing to weave the complicated threads of this recent segment of history into a thrilling story. Fearing for the safety of the manuscripts, Haidara and associates buy up “every trunk in Timbuktu” and pack them off 606 miles south to Bamako, employing a team of teenage couriers. The militants aim to “turn the clocks back fourteen hundred years” by destroying revered religious shrines and imposing Sharia law, which includes flogging unveiled women and severing the hands of thieves. Over the past twenty years, journalist Joshua Hammer visited Timbuktu numerous times and is uniquely qualified to tell the story of Haidara s heroic and. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the Worlds Most Precious Manuscripts Joshua Hammer Simon and Schuster, History - 288 pages 183 Reviews Reviews. Meanwhile, three al-Qaeda operatives, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, Abdel-hamid Abou Zeid, and Iyad Ag Ghali, escalate from kidnapping and drug trafficking to orchestrating a coup with Tuareg rebels against the Malian army and seizing Timbuktu. Hammer sketches Haidara’s career amassing manuscripts from Timbuktu’s neighboring towns and building his own library, which opened in 2000. Hammer has an extensive knowledge of the area and has spoken to diplomats, military figures and ordinary. Journalist Hammer ( Yokohama Burning) reports on librarian Abdel Kader Haidara and his associates’ harrowing ordeal as they rescued 370,000 historical manuscripts from destruction by al-Qaeda-occupied Timbuktu. Very readable and informative, it reads like a story. Brief Summary of Book: 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... by Joshua Hammer