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Joshua Hammer
Goodreads Author
Born
in New Rochelle, The United States
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March 2020
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/joshua57
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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
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2016
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The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
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2020
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10 editions
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The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
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2025
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6 editions
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The Kalinka Affair: A Father's Hunt for His Daughter's Killer
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2012
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3 editions
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The Honeymoon Murder
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published
2013
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4 editions
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Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II
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2006
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3 editions
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Chosen by God: A Brother's Journey
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1999
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3 editions
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A Season in Bethlehem: Unholy War in a Sacred Place
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2003
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7 editions
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The Desert Blues
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2015
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3 editions
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In Search of the Last Czar
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2011
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2 editions
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Joshua’s Recent Updates
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Joshua Hammer
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2 other people
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Kristin's review
of
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird:
"i wasn't expecting so much background story, but it ultimately makes sense to explain the history and it was interesting (and sickening) to learn more about the topic.
i appreciate the investigation the author did, bringing together as many aspects o" Read more of this review » |
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Joshua Hammer
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Leigh-Ann's review
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The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird:
"I'm kind of skeptical with nonfiction because I find it can be somewhat dry sometimes. But this read almost like a fictional book and I really enjoyed the story"
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Joshua Hammer
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2 other people
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Jenia's review
of
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing:
"Absolutely loved it. Covers the archaeological adventures of the 19th century (without shying away from pointing out the imperialistic mindset of the people, mostly men, involved). Also details the decipherment itself, explaining how the various cune"
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“The extremists had declared jihad against anyone and anything that challenged their vision of a pure Islamic society, and these artifacts - treatises about logic, astrology, and medicine, paeans to music, poems idealizing romantic love - represented five hundred years of human joy. They celebrated the sensual and the secular, and they bore the explicit message that humanity, as well as God, was capable of creating beauty. They were monumentally subversive.”
― 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
“We are a city that has had Islam for one thousand years. We had the greatest teachers and universities. And now these Bedouins, these illiterates, these ignoramuses, tell us how to wear our pants, and how to say our prayers, and how our wives should dress, as if they were the ones who invented the way?”
― 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
“...(T)he last rebels of the Tuareg uprising that had devastated the north for half a decade agreed to lay down their weapons, and the nomadic warriors surrendered thousands of Kalashnikov rifles to the government. The weapons were buried tin the concrete pedestal f a "monument of Peace" that sits on a rise on Timbuktu's outskirts- an assemblage of interlocking archways surrounded by colorful murals of Malian government soldiers and Tuareg rebels shaking hands and burning their weapons.”
― 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
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