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'The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures', by Charlie English - review

The Spectator, 2017

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'The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save its Treasures', by Charlie English - review
Author: Marozzi, Justin
Subjects: African history ; English as an international language ; English, Charlie ; Marozzi, Justin ; Murders & murder attempts
Is Part Of: The Spectator, 2017
Description: For travellers, explorers and historians of Africa, the ancient desert city, one-time fabulously rich centre of the Saharan caravan trade and bookish haven for bibliophiles, is one of the great destinations -- a place that manages to out-Mecca Mecca in its remote attraction. [...]there's the altogether more fantastical Timbuktu of the imagination, stirred by those epic tales of European explorers, driven crazy by malaria as they fought their feverish way along the deadly Niger, frequently losing their lives and those of their African companions, to reach this elusive talisman. Charlie English, a former Guardian international news editor, tells the gripping story of these accreting layers of exploration and literary excavation with punch and panache. Equally compelling, and cleverly interwoven with that history, is the more contemporary narrative of the frantic race to save tens of thousands of Timbuktu's priceless ancient manuscripts -- some stored in a state library, many more...
Publisher: London: The Spectator Limited
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0038-6952
EISSN: 2059-6499
Source: ProQuest Central

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