Notes:
- Quote: Thank you Rob @ The Hammock Papers
- More to this story – Amazing Facts by Doug Batchelor with the Beginning of Wisdom. “Abdul Kassem Ismael (A.D. 938 to 995) became Grand Vizier of Persia. Legend has it that the avid reader was so enthralled with literature and learning that he never left home without his personal library. The 400-camel caravan carried 117,000 books and must have been more than a mile long! Nevertheless, Ismael’s camel-drivers were also librarians, each responsible for the books on his camel, and could locate any book almost immediately because the animals were trained to walk in alphabetical order.”
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Love this!!!
Amazing, right!?!
A moveable library! Yay Caleb and friends!
Miles long!
i totally get this and love it and would have my mobile library do the same if i were the grand vizier. i love books, love alphabets, and camels…..well – perhaps i would employ a long line of friendly and clever donkeys.
Smiling. I can see that.
This comment belongs with your other post :/
I will fix
Well doesn’t this just put the mobile library in a new light? Very cool!
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400 hundred?? I bet CALEB was leading the caravan!!
And right away we assume that the camels put themselves into that order before starting on their walk. 😉
Logistics before it became a word.
I can’t imagine! This is amazing. Thank you, Love, nia
It is amazing Nia. And so long ago.
Fantastic! Love this!!! And you’ll enjoy to know, I had the privilege of trimming the hooves of a ZEBRA the other day. Payment? One set of reindeer antlers :)) :)) for real — they grace my living room, and I’m looking at them right now :)) Dawn
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I would only need 300—
I could probably get by with 50 and my kindle.
The camels that carry the salt blocks from Northern Mali will refuse to move if they are not loaded in exactly the same way each morning.
Amazing. I wouldn’t move period with salt blocks positioned any which way. 😀
Smiling. Thank you.
Wa-hahaha!!
Right!
All, I’m sure, prayed for no sand storms.
-Alan
Oh, I’m sure of that.
That would be me in a perfect life!
Actually, I have found a GWDII camel photo on your twitter and on the iPad you could only see the face with the eyes left and right and it was so utterly funny that I was disappointed to see the ‘whole hog’ when I clicked on it. Now I searched for a bit on your blog but couldn’t find it…. Never mind. This was interesting fun!
Now you have me curious Kiki!