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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)
Marrakesh Map
World Mapping Project
2005 MAP
A convenient map of the city of Marrakech and regional overview to the coastal resort of Essaouria, showing shops, restaurants and hotels. With a quick reference guide to the central Medina.
(MRC73, $8.99)
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)
Lords of the Atlas, The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua
Gavin Maxwell
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 2005 PAPER 316 PAGES
COMING IN AUGUST
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)
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)
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)
Culture Smart! Morocco
Jillian York
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local 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
A handy phrasebook with pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary.
(MRC15, $8.99)
Lonely Planet Morocco
Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK
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
Barbara Stoeltie
Rene Stoeltie
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 lively survey of political, social and cultural life in Morocco under King Mohammed V.
(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
This lively, scholarly 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, $23.95)
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, $24.95)
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 luminarries, 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
COMING IN OCTOBER
A charming 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 highly 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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