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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
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 de
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: 294
Pages: 294
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-07 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
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 K
Language: en
Pages: 496
Pages: 496
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-01 - Publisher: Roaring Brook
Retells the story of the authors' travels around the world teaching English, describing their experiences with the different peoples and cultures of such countr