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Language: en
Pages: 196
Pages: 196
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-01 - Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Meet Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, Timbuktu. Mr. Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, t
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-19 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice** To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Ele
Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-13 - Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
The first book for general readers about the storied past of one of the world’s most fabled cities. Timbuktu — the name still evokes an exotic, faraway plac
Language: en
Pages: 295
Pages: 295
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-07 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Renowned for its madrassas and archives of rare Arabic manuscripts, Timbuktu is famous as a great center of Muslim learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet Timbu
Language: en
Pages: 222
Pages: 222
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:
Stalked by crocodiles, charged by hippos, attacked by African killer bees, Mark Jenkins tells of the first descent of the Niger River in West Africa. In 1991 au