Struggling with my concentration even though this book is excellent.

If Jorge Luis Borges‘ Library of Babel could have existed in reality, it would have been something like the Long Room of Trinity College.

Great book describing the history and exploration for Timbuktu combined with an account of efforts to preserve Islamic manuscripts in the city from jihadists who overran the city and began destroying its heritage.

At the end of this chapter I will recount how Pope Benedict XVI and the Archbishop of Canterbury both bowed down before me, on live television, in front of the high altar of Westminster Abbey.