An edition of The storied city
(2017)
The storied city
the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past
by Charlie English
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Islamic learning and scholarship, Antiquities, Libraries, Arabic Manuscripts, Protection, Cultural property, Destruction and pillage, Discovery and exploration, History, Cultural property, protection, Africa, discovery and exploration, Africa, west, antiquities, Africa, west, history, Mali, Tombouctou (mali), New York Times reviewed, Discoveries in geography, Tuareg Rebellion (Mali : 2012-) fast (OCoLC)fst01907633Places
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Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
2018, Penguin Publishing Group, Riverhead Books
in English
1594634297 9781594634291
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The storied city: the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past
2017
in English
1594634289 9781594634284
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Table of Contents
Prologue: a man of enterprise and genius
Occupation
A seeker of manuscripts
A wide extended blank
Hell is not far away
The fourth traveller
Al-Qaeda to the rescue
It shall be mine
Ismael's list
Destruction
The armchair explorer
A headless horseman
The pope of Timbuktu
Secret agents
Liberation
Lives of the scholars
The terrible twosome
King Leopold's paperweight
Auto-da-fé
Chronicle of the seeker
An Indiana Jones moment in real life!
Manuscript fever
The myth factory
Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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