The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts:

Maryanne  Dever

doi:10.1080/01576895.2016.1222590

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

by Joshua Hammer, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2016, 280 pp., AUD $47.00, ISBN 978 1 476777 40 5

Maryanne Dever University of Technology Sydney

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2016.1222590

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2016-09-05

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Dever M. (2016) “The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts”, Archives & Manuscripts, 44(3), pp. 171-172. doi: 10.1080/01576895.2016.1222590.

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Vol 44 No 3 (2016)

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Book Reviews

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