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Marrakech   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Time Out Marrakech  •   Time Out
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
Compact and up-to-date, this is an outstanding guide on where to go and what to do in Marrakech and the surrounding area. With maps and introductory chapters on culture and history. (MRC68, $19.95)
  Time Out Marrakech
Marrakesh & Essaouira Map  •   World Mapping Project
2007 •  MAP
A convenient map of the city of Marrakech and regional overview to the coastal resort of Essaouira, showing shops, restaurants and hotels. With a quick reference guide to the central Medina. (MRC73, $8.99)
  Marrakesh & Essaouira Map
Cadogan Morocco  •  Barnaby Rogerson
GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER  • 648 PAGES
A guidebook in the respected British Cadogan series, this comprehensive look at Morocco provides insightful cultural and historical background, and up-to-date practical information. The heart of the book contains region-by-region descriptions aimed at the well read traveler. With some illustrations and excellent maps. (MRC50, $24.95)
  Cadogan Morocco
Lords of the Atlas, The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua  •  Gavin Maxwell
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 316 PAGES • COMING IN NOVEMBER
A classic account of the tribal warlords of the Atlas Mountains -- and of life in French colonial Morocco. In this rousing tale and excellent introduction to Marrakech, Maxwell (who also wrote "Ring of Bright Water") follows the fate of the despotic Glaoui clan from 1893 to independence from France in 1956. (MRC35, $32.95)
  Lords of the Atlas, The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua
A Year in Marrakesh  •  Peter Mayne
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 190 PAGES
This brilliantly entertaining, insightful classic account of Marrakesh captures the rhythm and spirit of life in the backways of the Medina in the 1950s. First published by John Murray as The Alleys of Marrakesh. (MRC55, $25.95)
  A Year in Marrakesh
Morocco Map  •   World Mapping Project
2003 •  MAP
A colorful shaded relief map of Morocco at a scale 1:1,000,000. Using the latest cartography from the World Mapping Project, the full color map, printed on rip-proof and waterproof paper, includes topographic features, latitude and longitude, and key visitor attractions. Water depths are indicated by contour lines in shades of blue and white. (MRC13, $9.99)
  Morocco Map
 

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Culture Smart! Morocco  •  Jillian York   • GUIDEBOOK  •  History, religion, daily life, food, health and safety are all covered in this pocket guide to Moroccan customs, etiquette and culture. (MRC70, $9.95)
 
 
Eyewitness Guide Morocco  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact guide introduces Morocco's history, culture and attractions. (MRC58, $25.00)
 
 
Footprint Morocco Handbook  •  Justin McGuinness   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN DECEMBER  •  This comprehensive guide in the British series reflects the spirit of its author, an Arabic speaker who taught at the University of Tunis and has an interest in medinas. With an overview of culture and history, color maps, site diagrams and detailed practical information. (MRC18, $24.95)
 
 
Lonely Planet Moroccan Arabic Phrasebook  •  Dan Bacon   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  This handy phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary. (MRC15, $8.99)
 
 
Lonely Planet Morocco  •   Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK • BEST SELLER  •  A practical guide to Morocco in the hallmark Lonely Planet style. (MRC19, $24.99)
 
 
Rough Guide Morocco  •   Rough Guide   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical, comprehensive guide aimed at the independent traveler, with detailed background on Morocco's culture and history and helpful information for getting around the country. Includes 79 sketch maps. (MRC51, $23.99)
 
 
TravelTalk Moroccan Arabic  •   TravelTalk   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy phrasebook and audio cassette focusing on basic Moroccan Arabic words and phrases for the traveler. (MRC20, $16.95)
 
 
Arabesque, A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, And Lebanon  •  Claudia Roden   • FOOD  •  Roden leavens 150 well-chosen, classic recipes of North Africa and the Middle East with scraps of history, culture and tales. With 93 color photographs. (MED99, $35.00)
 
 
A Traveller's History of North Africa  •  Barnaby Rogerson   • HISTORY  •  Wide-ranging, accessible and effectively condensed, this brief history marches confidently through the centuries, covering key events and personalities in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria through the 1990s. (NAF01, $15.95)
 
 
Islam, A Short History  •  Karen Armstrong   • RELIGION  •  Armstrong brings authority and experience to this clear-headed, vivid survey of the history and impact of Islam from the birth of Muhammad to present day challenges. A Modern Library Chronicles book. (ISL15, $14.95)
 
 
Living in Morocco  •  Angelika Taschen   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An elegantly photographed overview of architecture, design and style in Morocco. (MRC71, $29.99)
 
 
Morocco, The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges  •  Marvine Howe   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A penetrating look at political, social and cultural life in Morocco under King Mohammed V, by a former New York Times correspondent. (MRC75, $16.95)
 
 
The Berbers  •  Michael Brett  •  Elizabeth Fentress   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A comprehensive overview of the indigenous people of North Africa from antiquity through the Roman and Islamic periods to modern times. Surveys the history, literature and culture of the Berbers, exploring the identity they have forged in the region. (NAF02, $43.95)
 
 
The Conquest of Morocco  •  Douglas Porch   • HISTORY  •  Porch 's scholarly yet lively history of the French conquest from 1903 to 1914 paints a vivid portrait of turn-of-the-century Morocco. (MRC25, $15.00)
 
 
The Magic of Morocco  •  Tahar Ben Jalloun  •  Alain D'Hooghe  •  Mohamed Sijelmassi   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An evocative collection of photographs, both archival and modern, including such celebrated artists as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Paul Strand. Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun provides the introductory essay. (MRC32, $29.95)
 
 
A Street in Marrakech, A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco  •  Elizabeth Warnock Fernea   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This intimate account of an American woman and ethnographer on a year abroad with her family in 1972 brims with lively descriptions of daily life of women in and around the medina In Marrakech. (MRC29, $24.95)
 
 
Dreams of Trespass, Tales of a Harem Girlhood  •  Fatima Mernissi   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE  •  This captivating memoir opens, "I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, a ninth-century Moroccan city." Mernissi captures not only the spirit of the place, but also the hierarchy and decorum of a family compound in a Muslim household. (MRC10, $17.00)
 
 
In Morocco  •  Edith Wharton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A very enjoyable account of Wharton's month-long journey through Morocco just after World War I, including evocative portraits of Rabat, Fez and Marrakesh. (MRC02, $19.95)
 
 
Morocco That Was  •  Walter Harris   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A piercingly funny and sharp eyewitness account of the Sultanate by the eccentric London Times correspondent in Tangiers. Harris lived in the country for 30 years, which gave him unusual access to the Moorish court and civic life. (MRC59, $34.95)
 
 
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World  •  Paul Bowles  •  Edmund White   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Bowles' classic collection of essays about place, originally published in the 1950s, including his travels to Morocco, Istanbul, South America and Sri Lanka. (MRC60, $13.95)
 
 
Marrakesh, Through Writers' Eyes  •  Barnaby Rogerson  •  Stephen Lavington   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A choice collection of travel writing on the Red City by 40 luminaries, including George Orwell, Winston Churchill, Gavin Maxwell and Peter Mayne. (MRC72, $33.95)
 
 
Hideous Kinky, A Novel  •  Esther Freud   • LITERATURE  •  A mother and two daughters meander in Morocco in search of meaning in this autobiographical novel by the daughter of British painter Lucien Freud. (MRC49, $14.00)
 
 
Lulu in Marrakech  •  Diane Johnson   • LITERATURE  •  A comedy of manners both witty and weighty. When Lulu goes to Marrakech -- ostensibly for an old flame, but really to investigate radical Islamic groups for the CIA -- she finds herself suspended between two cultures and in dangerous circumstances. (MRC93, $25.95)
 
 
Makbara  •  Juan Goytisolo   • LITERATURE  •  Tthis oddly punctuated strange novel by Spain's modern master, a long-time resident in Marrakech, delves into sex, love, freedom and Arabic traditions. (MRC74, $14.99)
 
 
The Sand Child  •  Alan Sheridan  •  Tahar Ben Jelloun   • LITERATURE  •  The politically charged novel of Mohammed Ahmed, a girl raised as a boy to escape the limited life offered women in Islamic society. (MRC27, $19.95)
 
 
The Spider's House  •  Paul Bowles   • LITERATURE  •  Set in Fez during a 1954 nationalist uprising, this richly descriptive novel may be the most evocative of Bowles' many novels and stories set in Morocco. Originally published in 1955. (MRC08, $14.95)
 
 


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