作者:
Joshua Hammer
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约书亚·哈默 出版社: Simon & Schuster 副标题: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts 出版年: 2016-4-19 页数: 288 定价: USD 26.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781476777405
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manu...
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world’s greatest and most brazen smugglers.
In 2012, thousands of Al Qaeda militants from northwest Africa seized control of most of Mali, including Timbuktu. They imposed Sharia law, chopped off the hands of accused thieves, stoned to death unmarried couples, and threatened to destroy the great manuscripts. As the militants tightened their control over Timbuktu, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali.
Over the past twenty years, journalist Joshua Hammer visited Timbuktu numerous times and is uniquely qualified to tell the story of Haidara’s heroic and ultimately successful effort to outwit Al Qaeda and preserve Mali’s—and the world’s—literary patrimony. Hammer explores the city’s manuscript heritage and offers never-before-reported details about the militants’ march into northwest Africa. But above all, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu is an inspiring account of the victory of art and literature over extremism.
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Joshua Hammer was born in New York and graduated from Princeton University with a cum laude degree in English literature. He joined the staff of Newsweek as a business and media writer in 1988, and between 1992 and 2006 served as a bureau chief and correspondent-at-large on five continents. Hammer is now a contributing editor to Smithsonian and Outside, a frequent contributor t...
Joshua Hammer was born in New York and graduated from Princeton University with a cum laude degree in English literature. He joined the staff of Newsweek as a business and media writer in 1988, and between 1992 and 2006 served as a bureau chief and correspondent-at-large on five continents. Hammer is now a contributing editor to Smithsonian and Outside, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and has written for publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Condé Nast Traveler, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Atavist. He is the author of four nonfiction books, including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, and has won numerous journalism awards. Since 2007 he has been based in Berlin, Germany, and continues to travel widely around the world.
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0 有用 munford 2019-09-30 13:39:26
虽说是纪实内容，写法更像是小说，几十年前非作者亲历的事写得绘声绘色。
0 有用 feanor 2016-11-19 08:39:48
儘管是被librarians(Oook)及Timbuktu吸引才拿起這本書，但這名字可真夠糟糕的。作者事無巨細甚麼都想講，追求細節背景的人會喜歡，但因書名想看故事的就要失望了，書名相關的主線占篇幅不到一半。五星級的故事，豐富的資料，沒寫好。
0 有用 Serenity 2025-02-14 19:07:48 北京
没有写多少古籍的知识，大量地写了基地组织在马里的暴行。人类文明真的脆弱，而且就是依赖一两个少数人，没有主人公一己之力，这些古籍就不存在了，我也永远不会听说非洲还有个这么厉害的文明
0 有用 Shia 2020-12-19 10:38:53
一个精彩紧张的故事被写得像历史年表一样，真是浪费了