Books by Joshua Hammer and Complete Book Reviews

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Joshua Hammer. Simon & Schuster, $26 (263p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7740-5
Journalist Hammer (Yokohama Burning) reports on librarian Abdel Kader Haidara and his associates’ harrowing ordeal as they rescued 370,000 historical manuscripts from destruction by al-Qaeda-occupied Timbuktu. Hammer sketches Haidara’s career...
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The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
Joshua Hammer. Simon & Schuster, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9188-6
Hammer (The Badass-Librarians of Timbuktu), a contributing writer to Smithsonian magazine, delivers a vivid tale of obsession and international derring-do. The book opens in 2010 at the U.K.’s Birmingham International Airport, where Jeffrey Lendrum...
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The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing
Joshua Hammer. Simon & Schuster, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-6680-1544-5
Journalist Hammer follows up The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu with another dazzling archival adventure. By the 1850s, several scholars claimed to have decoded cuneiform, an ancient Mesopotamian script that had first been discovered several decades
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