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Copyright © 2017 by Charlie English
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Ebook ISBN: 9780698197145
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: English, Charlie, author.
Title: The storied city : the quest for Timbuktu and the fantastic mission to save its past / Charlie English.
Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016039192 | ISBN 9781594634284
Subjects: LCSH: Tombouctou (Mali)—Discovery and exploration. | Tombouctou (Mali)—Antiquities. | Mali—History—Tuareg Rebellion, 2012—Destruction and pillage. | Manuscripts, Arabic—Mali—Tombouctou. | Libraries—Destruction and pillage—Mali—Tombouctou. | Islamic learning and scholarship—Mali—Tombouctou. | Cultural property—Protection—Mali—Tombouctou.
Classification: LCC DT551.9.T55 E54 2017 | DDC 966.23—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016039192
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Frontispiece: Nineteenth-century drawing of Timbuktu, based on a description by the French explorer René Caillié
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