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Charlie English, The Storied City
查理?英格里希《傳奇的城市》

The former head of international news at the Guardian, English begins his story with the near mythic quest by English explorer Alexander Gordon Laing, who set off from Tripoli in 1825 to become the first European to reach the fabled city of Timbuktu. He survives a vicious attack by a group of Tuareg and a yellow fever epidemic to reach his destination, writes back to his command of finding abundant records there, and then disappears from history. The "manuscripts of Timbuktu," English notes, were thought to have been destroyed in 2012 by rebels who trashed Timbuktu's monuments. English writes vividly of explorations of the past and complications of the present, with a focus on the Indiana Jones-style account of the evacuation of the manuscripts, spearheaded by a courageous librarian named Abdel Kader Haidara. (Credit: Riverhead)
《衛報》國際新聞前主編查理?英格里希以英國探險家亞歷山大?戈登?萊因一次近乎神秘的探險開始了他的故事。1825年，萊因由的黎波里出發，他從圖阿雷格人惡意的襲擊和一場黃熱病中幸存下來，到達了目的地，成為第一個到達傳說中的城市——廷巴克圖的歐洲人。他寫信給指揮站說發現了大量記錄，然后他就從歷史中消失了。人們認為，在2012年反政府武裝摧毀廷巴克圖時，這本“廷巴克圖手稿”就已經被他們損毀。英格里希生動地描寫了對歷史的探索和混亂的現實。他以印第安納瓊斯式的風格著重講述了勇敢的圖書館管理員Abdel Kader Haidara牽頭撤離手稿的行動。（來源：河源出版社）