Prologue: a man of enterprise and genius A seeker of manuscripts A wide but extended blank Hell is not far away The fourth traveler Al-Qaeda to the rescue It shall be mine Ismael's list The armchair explorer The headless horseman The pope of Timbuktu Secret agents Lives of the scholars The terrible twosome King Leopold's paperweight Auto-da-fé Chronicle of the researcher An Indiana Jones moment in real life! Manuscript fever The myth factory Epilogue
