English C The Storied City The Quest for Timbuktu 2017
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Name: English C The Storied City The Quest for Timbuktu 2017
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Title: The Storied City
Author: Charlie English
Language: angielski
Year: 2017
Subjects: Literature, Art, Architecture & Photography, Religion, Social Sciences, Philosophy, History, Current Affairs & Politics, Literary Criticism, Art – History & Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Religion, Islam, Islamic Studies, General & Miscellaneous Philosophy, African History, African Studies, Anthropology & Archaeology, Terrorism, Middle Eastern & Arabic Literature, General & Miscellaneous Art, Religious, North African History, West African History, Anthropology, Arabic Literature – Literary Criticism, Art Conservation, Restoration & Museum Studies, Education, General & Miscellaneous Islam, Islamic Philosophy, Mali – History, Material Culture, Terrorism – General & Miscellaneous
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780698197145
Total pages: 417
Description:
“Timbuktu is a real place, and Charlie English will fuel your wanderlust with true descriptions of the fabled city’s past, present, and future.” –Fodor’s
Two tales of a city: The historical race to “discover” 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 tantalizing 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 center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands-according to some, hundreds 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 fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet’s extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable.
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