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Timbuktu Books
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 12,350 ratings — published 2016
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as timbuktu)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,171 ratings — published 1994
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 482 ratings — published 2006
Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as timbuktu)
avg rating 3.72 — 990 ratings — published 2008
The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 53 ratings — published 1975
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for This Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 1,038 ratings — published 2017
When We Ruled: The Ancient and Medieval History of Black Civilisations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 207 ratings — published 2006
Up at the College (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 345 ratings — published 2008
Timbuktu (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 16,746 ratings — published 1999
Hacking Timbuktu (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 175 ratings — published 2009
Allah O Akbar: A Journey Through Militant Islam (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 15 ratings — published 1994
AFRO-BETS First Book About Africa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1989
“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
“They glided out of the heat-haze on their camels like specters. There were twenty of them, and they were Tuareg. Their faces were hidden by black veils that left only slits for the eyes, and they wore purple robes that fluttered in the desert wind. They carried swords, muskets and seven-foot iron spears, and wore stilettos in sheaths on their left forearms. They were an impressive, sinister sight.”
― Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
― Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
