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The Storied City

Author : Charlie English
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594634297
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 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.

Storied City

Author : Leonard S. Marcus
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
ISBN 13 : 9780525469247
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Storied City written by Leonard S. Marcus and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty-one walking tours of New York City, including more than one hundred sites of literary significance and featuring more than two hundred books about New York written for young readers.

Storied & Scandalous Kansas City

Author : Karla Deel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493042440
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Storied & Scandalous Kansas City written by Karla Deel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Kansas City—the best town this side of Hell. The Paris of the Plains. Home to the Wettest Block in the World. This collection celebrates a storied history of one notorious city. Meet the mobsters and victims, bootleggers, madams, political bosses and raucous entertainers who truly brought the party to the plains even during Prohibition. Witness the best parades, the wackiest costumes and the wildest scams. Kansas City’s sordid underbelly is full of surprises sure to delight and entice—the odd, macabre and delightful. ,

Historic Columbus Taverns

Author : Tom Betti
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614235449
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Historic Columbus Taverns written by Tom Betti and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first buildings in Central Ohio in the 1790s was a tavern and 200 years later--Columbus as a "foodie" town shows renewed interest in discovering its historic "liquid assets." Once historic taverns in frontier Columbus featured live bears chained to giant wheels, pumping water for travelers in need of a shower and giving new meaning to the term "watering hole." Existing historic taverns in Columbus span from 1830s through the 1930s and still have little-known histories, stories, scandals, as well as, architectural fabric to explore. One is built on a still active graveyard; another is in the building of a former Pentecostal church. Several remain from the Irish and German migrations and survived Prohibition; one was the quintessential gentlemen's bar still with pool room that connected by underground tunnel to the Ohio Statehouse in a time of temperance. Another was both a tavern and a bordello for Union and Confederate officers (though on different nights). Set in the social and political historic context of a changing city, the taverns offer a chance to explore the city's history through its watering holes.

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu

Author : Charlie English
Publisher : William Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008126650
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (266 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

Storied Lives

Author : Gary Y. Okihiro
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295803401
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Storied Lives written by Gary Y. Okihiro and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II over 5,500 young Japanese Americans left the concentration camps to which they had been confined with their families in order to attend college. Storied Lives describes�often in their own words�how nisei students found schools to attend outside the West Coast exclusion zone and the efforts of white Americans to help them. The book is concerned with the deeds of white and Japanese Americans in a mutual struggle against racism, and argues that Asian American studies�indeed, race relations as a whole�will benefit from an understanding not only of racism but also of its opposition, antiracism. To uncover this little known story, Gary Okihiro surveyed the colleges and universities the nisei attended, collected oral histories from nisei students and student relocation staff members, and examined the records of the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council and other materials.

The Neighborhood Mother Goose

Author :
Publisher : Greenwillow Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Neighborhood Mother Goose written by and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nursery rhymes, both familiar and less known, illustrated with photographs in a city setting.

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Author : Joshua Hammer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476777438
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 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: **New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice** To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller” (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that were crumbling in the trunks of desert shepherds. His goal: preserve this crucial part of the world’s patrimony in a gorgeous library. But then Al Qaeda showed up at the door. “Part history, part scholarly adventure story, and part journalist survey…Joshua Hammer writes with verve and expertise” (The New York Times Book Review) about how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist from the legendary city of Timbuktu, became one of the world’s greatest smugglers by saving the texts from sure destruction. With bravery and patience, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali. His heroic heist “has all the elements of a classic adventure novel” (The Seattle Times), and is a reminder that ordinary citizens often do the most to protect the beauty of their culture. His the story is one of a man who, through extreme circumstances, discovered his higher calling and was changed forever by it.

The Primitive City of Timbuctoo

Author : Horace Mitchell Miner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Primitive City of Timbuctoo written by Horace Mitchell Miner and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Buildings and Building Management

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Buildings and Building Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report

Author : American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Istanbul

Author : Richard Tillinghast
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909961159
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Istanbul written by Richard Tillinghast and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its varied and glorious history, Istanbul remains one of the world’s perennially fascinating cities. Richard Tillinghast, who first visited Istanbul in the early 1960s and has watched it transform over the decades into a vibrant metropolis, explores its rich art and architecture, culture, cuisine, and much more in this book. Istanbul was known in Byzantine times as the “Queen of Cities” and to the Ottoman Turks as the “Abode of Felicity.” Steeped in Istanbul’s history, Tillinghast takes his readers on a voyage of discovery through this storied cultural hub, and he is as comfortable talking about Byzantine mosaics and dervish ceremonies as Iznik ceramics and the imperial mosques. His lyrical writing brings Istanbul alive on the page as he accompanies readers to cafés, palaces, and taverns, perfectly conjuring the atmospheric delights, sounds, and senses of the city. Illuminating Istanbul’s great buildings with tales that bring Ottoman and Byzantine history to life, Tillinghast is adept at discovering both what the city remembers and what it chooses to forget.

Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York

Author : American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York written by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of New York

Author : American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of New York written by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

First-thirtieth Annual Report ... 1896-1925 to the Legislature of the State of New York ...

Author : American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book First-thirtieth Annual Report ... 1896-1925 to the Legislature of the State of New York ... written by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lost City of the Monkey God

Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455540021
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Lost City of the Monkey God written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.