Joshua Hammer
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in New Rochelle, The United States
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March 2020
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
24 editions
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2016
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The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
10 editions
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2020
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The Kalinka Affair: A Father's Hunt for His Daughter's Killer
2 editions
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2012
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The Honeymoon Murder
3 editions
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2013
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Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire That Helped Forge the Path to World War II
3 editions
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2006
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Chosen By God: A Brother's Journey
3 editions
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1999
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The Desert Blues
3 editions
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2015
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In Search of the Last Czar
2 editions
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2011
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The Lost Buddha
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2011
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Where Agatha Christie Dreamed Up Murder
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2012
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“The extremists had declared jihad against anyone and anything that challenged their vision of a pure Islamic society, and these artifacts - treatises about logic, astrology, and medicine, paeans to music, poems idealizing romantic love - represented five hundred years of human joy. They celebrated the sensual and the secular, and they bore the explicit message that humanity, as well as God, was capable of creating beauty. They were monumentally subversive.”
― The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
― The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
“We are a city that has had Islam for one thousand years. We had the greatest teachers and universities. And now these Bedouins, these illiterates, these ignoramuses, tell us how to wear our pants, and how to say our prayers, and how our wives should dress, as if they were the ones who invented the way?”
― The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
― The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
“...(T)he last rebels of the Tuareg uprising that had devastated the north for half a decade agreed to lay down their weapons, and the nomadic warriors surrendered thousands of Kalashnikov rifles to the government. The weapons were buried tin the concrete pedestal f a "monument of Peace" that sits on a rise on Timbuktu's outskirts- an assemblage of interlocking archways surrounded by colorful murals of Malian government soldiers and Tuareg rebels shaking hands and burning their weapons.”
― The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
― The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
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