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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer Pdf
Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands of Al Qaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.
The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu by John O Hunwick,Alida Jay Boye Pdf
The extraordinary manuscripts of Timbuktu: invaluable historical documents, objects of tremendous beauty, and a testament to a great center of learning and civilization. For centuries, trading caravans made epic journeys across the Saharan sands to reach the markets of the legendary city of Timbuktu, where they traded salt, gold, slaves, textiles—and books. By the mid-fifteenth century, Timbuktu had become a major center of Islamic literary culture and scholarship. The city's libraries were repositories of all the world's learning, housing not only works by Arab and Islamic writers but also volumes from the classical Greek and Roman worlds and studies by contemporary scholars. The astonishing manuscripts of Timbuktu form the lavish visual heart of this book. Beautifully graphic, occasionally decorated, these exquisite artifacts reveal great craftsmanship as well as learning. All were written in the Arabic script, but not all are in Arabic, for they also feature a range of local African languages. Aside from scholarly works, the surviving manuscripts include a wealth of correspondence between rulers, advisers, and merchants on subjects as various as taxation, commerce, marriage, divorce, adoption, breastfeeding, and prostitution, providing a vivid insight into the ordinary life and values of the day.
Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa. Ousmane Kane charts the rise of Muslim learning in West Africa from the beginning of Islam to the present day and corrects lingering misconceptions about Africa’s Muslim heritage and its influence.
Back in print for a new generation, a rollicking, rhyming train tale from the author of Goodnight Moon! From Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo, from Timbuctoo and back! This beloved story from 1951, about a big train and a little train that have just left Kalamazoo, has captured the imaginations of generations of children. Out of print for decades, it is back to delight little ones and their parents and grandparents again. "Clackety-clack—clackety-clack—pocketa-pocketa-pocketa"—down the track they go! Now a new generation of children will pore over the cheerful illustrations of bridges, tracks, and countryside, while listening to this rollicking tale.
From Kalamazoo to Timbuktu! by Harriet Ziefert Pdf
When Mike and Millie get bored and decide to travel from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Timbuktoo, they must continuously change modes of transportation as their bicycle breaks down, a canoe tips over, and the whale gets tired out.
With the fabled city of Timbuktu as his goal, author Rick Antonson began a month-long trek. His initial plan? To get a haircut. The second edition of this important book outlines the volatile political situations in Timbuktu following the spring 2012 military coup in Mali and the subsequent capture of the city by Islamic extremists.
From Jerusalem to Timbuktu by Brian C. Stiller Pdf
Christianity started in Jerusalem. For many centuries it was concentrated in the West, in Europe and North America. But in the past century the church expanded rapidly across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Thus Christianity's geographic center of density is now in the West African country of Mali—in Timbuktu. What led to the church's vibrant growth throughout the Global South? Brian Stiller identifies five key factors that have shaped the church, from a renewed openness to the move of the Holy Spirit to the empowerment of indigenous leadership. While in some areas Christianity is embattled and threatened, in many places it is flourishing as never before. Discover the surprising story of the global advance of the gospel. And be encouraged that Jesus' witness continues to the ends of the earth.
For nearly eight years as the monthly columnist for Outside magazine, and in his award-winning books, Mark Jenkins has held fans spellbound with his riveting accounts of expeditions to remote parts of the globe. In To Timbuktu, he sets out with three friends to attempt their first descent of the Niger River, hoping to reach the legendary city of Timbuktu. Along the way they are attacked by killer bees, charged by hippos, and stalked by crocodiles. They stumble upon a group of completely blind men living alone in the bush and dance with a hundred naked women. That Jenkins finally reaches his goal—riding alone across the Sahara on a motorcycle—stands in sharp contrast to what befell earlier explorers who tried to find Timbuktu and whose fates the author interweaves with the narrative of his own journey. A rich combination of cultural exploration, history, and gripping adventure, this beautifully repackaged edition of To Timbuktu is a journey not to be missed.
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, troubled, and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great adventure, heading for Baltimore, Maryland in search of Willy's high school teacher, Bea Swanson. Years have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch, the son of Polish war refugees. But is Mrs. Swanson still alive? And if she isn't, what will prevent Willy from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu? Mr. Bones is our witness. Although he walks on four legs and cannot speak, he can think, and out of his thoughts Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in recent American fiction. By turns comic, poignant, and tragic, Timbuktu is above all a love story. Written with a scintillating verbal energy, it takes us into the heart of a singularly pure and passionate character, an unforgettable dog who has much to teach us about our own humanity.
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu by Charlie English Pdf
Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval centre of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable
The saffron-colored sky, laden with biting grains of sand, was beginning to yield to a more hospitable blue. Silence prevailed in the harsh desert surroundings the stranded railway coach. The dusty and the violent north wind, which had been lashing the sides of the coach was abating gradually into a fresh breeze playing with the branches of a few date trees, several meters far from the coach. Manira opened the window of the toilet and looked outside at the empty silent desert. She felt herself as an outcast, in the middle of uncharted location, with nothing to see except rugged masses of marble rocks jetting out of the sands here and there, among gigantic sand dunes that extend till the edge of the towering mountains far in the horizon. The conductor stepped down from the car followed by Baron. Both scanned the desert surrounding to explore if there is a sign of life around. But there was absolutely nothing except few rocky hills with the empty railway line coiling its way around the rocky hills till the horizon. Luckily the separated coach stopped few meters away from an area with scattered date trees, which broke the monotony of the one yellow color of sands and rocks. “We are in deep, deep trouble. The conductor said looking at Baron, then he added with a tone of anger: “It’s your fault that we are stranded here in the middle of nowhere. Had you listened to me, we would be in that traveling train. Not in this abandoned coach. Infuriated by the conductor’s belligerent redundancy, Baron shouted: “You have the audacity to twist facts? Why did you call us out of this coach? Admit it. You are part of it. Everything was preplanned, and you knew that this rear coach would be detached from the train. The plan is to get rid of the mentally ill children!.. Am I right? What kind of a brutal scheme to abandon those illusioned and indisposed children to perish in the desert? Was it because there is a deficit in the budget of the institution of the mentally ill? Is it devilish plan invented to waste and bury them in the desert and then to be declared as a train freak accident. A good pretext to get rid of them? You thought you fooled me? You think I believe your innocence?.. It is an obvious premeditated
Documents the author's journeys through Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, discussing the inspiration for her travels, the women who adopted her into their ranks, and her discoveries about the region's forgotten areas and future promise.
Retells the story of the authors' travels around the world teaching English, describing their experiences with the different peoples and cultures of such countries as Morocco, China, and Mali.
