The storied city : the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past

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Book | Riverhead Books, New York : 2017.

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Branch	Call Number	Location	Holdable?	Status
Diamond Trail	966.23 Eng	Adult Non-fiction	Copy hold / Volume hold	Available

ISBN: 9781594634284 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmprint
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Prologue: a man of enterprise and genius -- A seeker of manuscripts -- A wide but extended blank -- Hell is not far away -- The fourth traveler -- Al-Qaeda to the rescue -- It shall be mine -- Ismael's list -- The armchair explorer -- The headless horseman -- The pope of Timbuktu -- Secret agents -- Lives of the scholars -- The terrible twosome -- King Leopold's paperweight -- Auto-da-fé -- Chronicle of the researcher -- An Indiana Jones moment in real life! -- Manuscript fever -- The myth factory -- Epilogue.

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