The manuscripts of Timbuktu /

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Author / Creator:Djian, Jean-Michel, author.
Uniform title:Manuscrits de Tombouctou. English
Edition:First AWP English edition.
Imprint:Trenton : Africa World Press, [2020]
Description:xxv, 159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12041427
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Secrets, myths, and realities
Other authors / contributors:Wise, Christopher, 1961- translator.
Le Clézio, J.-M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave), 1940- writer of foreword.
Diagne, Souleymane Bachir, writer of afterword.
ISBN:9781569026380
1569026386
Notes:"First French Edition 2012."
Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the original French into English.

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