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Charlie English, The Storied City
查理•英格里希《传奇的城市》

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)
《卫报》国际新闻前主编查理•英格里希以英国探险家亚历山大•戈登•莱因一次近乎神秘的探险开始了他的故事。1825年，莱因由的黎波里出发，他从图阿雷格人恶意的袭击和一场黄热病中幸存下来，到达了目的地，成为第一个到达传说中的城市——廷巴克图的欧洲人。他写信给指挥站说发现了大量记录，然后他就从历史中消失了。人们认为，在2012年反政府武装摧毁廷巴克图时，这本“廷巴克图手稿”就已经被他们损毁。英格里希生动地描写了对历史的探索和混乱的现实。他以印第安纳琼斯式的风格着重讲述了勇敢的图书馆管理员Abdel Kader Haidara牵头撤离手稿的行动。（来源：河源出版社）