Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/320699to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures Author: Charlie English Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 4, 2017 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: ‘An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel’ Observer, Books of the Year ‘A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity… [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint’ TLS The fabled city of Timbuktu has captured the Western imagination for centuries. The search for this ‘African El Dorado’ cost the lives of many explorers but Timbuktu is rich beyond its legends. Home to many thousands of ancient manuscripts on poetry, history, religion, law, pharmacology and astronomy, the city has been a centre of learning since medieval times. When jihadists invaded Mali in 2012 threatening destruction to Timbuktu’s libraries, a remarkable thing happened. A team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the precious manuscripts into hiding. Based on new research and first-hand reporting, Charlie English expertly tells this story set in one of the world’s most fascinating places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable.

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