The Storied City
The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
Charlie English
ISBN: | 9780698197145 |
Publisher: | Riverhead Books |
Published: | 2 May, 2017 |
Format: | eBook |
Links | Penguin |
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The Storied City
The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
Charlie English
Two tales of a city: The historical race to 'discover' one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name 'Timbuktu' long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fe
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