Summary of Joshua Hammer's the Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu - Sumoreads

Don't miss this summary of Joshua Hammer's harrowing tale of the secret mission to smuggle almost 400,000 manuscripts from Timbuktu. "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu" is a fascinating and in-depth at a piece of history many are unfamiliar with. This SUMOREADS summary provides key takeaways, analysis, and full chapter synopses to help you quickly learn the tale of these bad-add libraians and the risks they took to save priceless pieces of history.

What Will You Learn from Reading This Book?

• Learn the unique story of Abdel Kader Hadaira and the "bad-ass librarians" who embarked first, on the remarkable task of collecting, conserving, and preserving the manuscripts of Timbuktu; and then years later, valiantly saved them from obliteration
• Introduction to the long and rich scholarly history of northern Africa
• Glimpse the historical scars that led to the distrust of foreign influences in Mali
• Insight into the historical events that led to the jihadi occupation of northern Mali
• Understand the desperate and harrowing circumstances of living under jihadi control
• Insight into the French military operation that quelled Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Book Summary Overview
Joshua Hammer's, "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" tells the true-life story of Abdel Kader Haidara's secret mission to smuggle 377,000 centuries-old manuscripts out of Timbuktu during the 2012 jihadi occupation of northern Mali. Hammer's book is packed with thrill-a-minute adventures well-told by one of today's most prominent journalists. This action-packed narrative is a great read not only for history buffs and bibliophiles, but for anyone who wants to understand more about the rise of radical Islam and the way events have unfolded leading up to the modern-day Middle East.

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