The Treasure Of Timbuktu

Author : Catherine Palmer
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414328346
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Kiss of Adventure written by Catherine Palmer and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate and on the run, Tillie Thornton finds herself in an uneasy partnership with Graeme McLeod, a daring adventurer who comes out of nowhere to thwart the plot of Tillie’s would-be kidnappers. Now these two must join forces against their common enemies, as well as the challenges of nature, as they embark on a quest that could bring them the answers they seek—or cost them everything. Formerly published as The Treasure of Timbuktu.

Author : John O Hunwick
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu written by John O Hunwick and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary manuscripts of Timbuktu: invaluable historical documents, objects of tremendous beauty, and a testament to a great center of learning and civilization.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.

Author : Umm Nura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986720802
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jannah Jewels Book 1 written by Umm Nura and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jannah Jewels land in the ancient city of Timbuktu in Mali. Suddenly, they are caught in the middle of a mystery. Someone has stolen a priceless manuscript! While following clues, they find the Grand Mosque and discover the Treasure King. Who exactly is the Treasure King and can the Jannah Jewels restore the missing manuscript into a Golden Clock before time runs out?

Author : Joshua Hammer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476777403
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu written by Joshua Hammer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054750599X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hacking Timbuktu written by Stephen Davies and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny is a freelance IT specialist—that is, a hacker. He and his pal Omar are both skilled at parkour, or freerunning, a discipline designed to enable practitioners to travel between any two points regardless of obstacles. This is fortunate, because they're off on an adventure that's filled with obstacles, from locked doors to gangs of hostile pursuers. Together they follow a cryptic clue, find a missing map, figure out how to get to Timbuktu without buying a plane ticket, and join the life-and-death treasure hunt, exchanging wisecracks and solving the puzzle one step at a time.An exotic setting and gripping suspense, as well as an absorbing introduction to parkour, make this thriller a genuine page-turner.

Author : Tahir Shah
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 190888682X
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TIMBUCTOO written by Tahir Shah and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Europe's great explorers were sent out to find Timbuctoo - a city supposedly built from pure gold. Most of them never returned alive. At the height of the Timbuctoo Mania, 200 years ago, an illiterate American sailor was found on the streets of snowbound London, claiming to have been taken there as a white slave.

Author : Charlie English
Publisher : William Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008126650
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu written by Charlie English and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Charlie English
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594634297
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Storied City written by Charlie English and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Author : Cristina Kessler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692287910
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trouble in Timbuktu written by Cristina Kessler and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayisha and Ahmed know there is trouble. Something is not right with this American archaeologist and his wife. Supposedly tourists. Why are they so interested in the ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu? Could they really be plotting to steal one? Well, they are more than old manuscripts to Ayisha and Ahmed-they are a rich part of their own heritage. No way are the two teens going to let this happen! They risk everything to stop them, embarking on a desperate quest that takes them across the desert, through a deadly heat, a sweeping sandstorm and fi nally to the port city of Korioume to confront and trap the wily thieves-and save a treasure of Timbuktu.

Author : Rick Antonson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459710509
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Timbuktu for a Haircut written by Rick Antonson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-08-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.