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Two tales of a city: the historical contest to attain one of the world's most mythologized places and the story of what sort of contemporary music group of archivists and librarians, preventing to save lots of its historical manuscripts from devastation as a result of al-Qaeda, added another covering to the legend. To Westerners, the name Timbuktu long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves used gold. From the past due 18th century, some explorers gripped by the fever for discovery tried repeatedly to attain the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to strike, the weather, and disease. Timbuktu was abundant with another way, too. A middle ages centre of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of historical manuscripts on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, laws to history, pharmacology and astronomy. When al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these important documents, a exceptional thing took place: a team of librarians and archivists became a member of causes to spirit the manuscripts into covering. Relying on considerable research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines both of these suspenseful strands into a remarkable account of one of the planet's amazing places and the common myths from which it has become inseparable.
