Mel B’s Reviews > The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts > Status Update

Good so far, manuscript part was fascinating and now author is kind of going through the building of terrorist groups taking hold in Mali in like 2003. Think it’s building to how our hero will need to evacuate his manuscript collection.

I think the author is typically a long form journalist and this would benefit from some pictures and graphics (maps, family trees) so I can keep up. It’s a thinker