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Eyewitness Guide Spain
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 720 PAGES
This superb, colorful guide covers all of Spain. It features bright photography, dozens of excellent maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and accessible, this is the guide to carry.
(SPN05, $30.00)
Eyewitness Guide Morocco
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2008 FLEXI-BOUND 408 PAGES
Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of Morocco, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations.
(MRC58, $25.00)
The Alhambra
Robert Irwin Mary Beard
ART & ARCHITECTURE 2004 HARD COVER 224 PAGES
In this brief, indispensable guide, Irwin introduces the stunning Moorish palace and fortress complex, revealing its mysteries, myths and significance with wit and insight. He opens with a romantic description of the fairytale structure, which he then deliciously demolishes. Includes a detailed floor plan, sketches and aerial photographs. A volume in the Harvard University Press series, Wonders of the World. Irwin is a British novelist and Islamic scholar.
(SPN226, $19.95)
The Caliph's House, A Year in Casablanca
Tahir Shah
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 2006 PAPER 343 PAGES
Shah's entertaining account of the transformation of a spectacularly crumbled palace in Casablanca, abandoned for a decade. Shah is a marvelous writer and storyteller, interweaving Moroccan customs and history and deft portraits of neighbors, craftsmen and others. He captures the mix of old and new, absurd and moving, frustration and joy of Morocco. The house was not just crumbling but occupied by spirits.
(MRC66, $14.00)
Spain & Portugal Map
Freytag & Berndt
2006 MAP
A colorful, shaded relief map of the entire Iberian Peninsula at a scale of 1:700,000. With a 64-page booklet including an index and city plans of Barcelona, Lisbon and Madrid. Two Sides. 50x35 inches.
(SPN22, $12.95)
Morocco Map 742
Michelin Travel Publications
2008 MAP
A detailed road map of Morocco for travelers with an overview at 1:4 million scale, north and central regions at 1:1,000,000, with Casablanca, Marrakesh and Atlas Mountain regions at at 1:600,000. Two Sides. 28x36 inches.
(MRC13, $11.95)
Eyewitness Guide Seville and Andalusia
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This wonderfully organized and visually rich guide fea-tures excellent maps, essays on the culture, history and geography of the region, and a practical block-by-block guide to Seville
(SPN15, $23.00)
Lonely Planet Fez Encounter
Virginia Maxwell
GUIDEBOOK
A lively shirt pocket guide to the imperial city.
(MRC90, $11.99)
Lonely Planet Moroccan Arabic Phrasebook
Dan Bacon
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
This handy phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary.
(MRC15, $8.99)
A Late Dinner, Discovering the Food of Spain
Paul Richardson
FOOD
A resident of Spain for the last 15 years, Richardson searches out the diversity and delight of Spain and its food in this engaging account of travels in search of a meal.
(SPN344, $24.00)
Traditional Moroccan Cooking, Recipes from Fez
Claudia Roden
Madame Guinaudeau
FOOD
First published in 1958, Madame Guinaudeau's charming guide to Moroccan cuisine explores the rich culinary traditions of Fez with anecdotes, recipes, drawings and chapters on everything from choosing spices and preserving lemons to The Art of Making and Drinking Tea.
(MRC44, $14.95)
Ghosts of Spain
Giles Tremlett
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Long-time Guardian correspondant Tremlett writes with nuance and flair in this engaging portrait of Spain, its people and recent history.
(SPN323, $16.95)
Islam, A Short History
Karen Armstrong
RELIGION
Armstrong brings authority and experience to this vivid, clear-headed 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
From exquisite rugs and textiles to vibrant mosaics, courtyards and interiors, this gorgeous photographic collection celebrates the beauty and allure of Morocco.
(MRC71, $29.99)
Moorish Spain
Richard Fletcher
HISTORY
The history and culture of Islam in Spain geared for the curious traveler.
(SPN110, $23.95)
Spain, The Root and the Flower
John A. Crow
HISTORY
Take this book with you to Spain: it's an absorbing, well-written account of Spanish cultural history from prehistory to the Romans, Jews, Moors, Golden Age, and on to Franco and his legacy in modern Spain.
(SPN13, $22.95)
The Ornament of the World, How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
Maria Rosa Menocal
Harold Bloom
RELIGION
A lively, illuminating portrait of the Andalucian Kingdom, its cultural achievements and religious tolerance from the eighth century to 1492.
(SPN185, $14.99)
The Story of the Moors in Spain
Stanley Lane-Poole
HISTORY
A wonderfully readable, sweeping tale of splendor and tragedy, first published in 1866.
(SPN12, $18.95)
The Prado
Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Highlights of the Prado Museum in Madrid, featuring 320 illustrations of art collected by the kings and queens over centuries, including works by Goya, Rubens, Velazquez and El Greco.
(SPN104, $35.00)
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)
Driving over Lemons, An Optimist in Andalucia
Chris Stewart
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Chris Stewart's memoir about moving with his wife to farm in Alpujarras is charming and insightful. Unlike many expatriates, Stewart manages to ground himself far enough into the community to make lasting friends -- as well as a home for his young daughter.
(SPN135, $13.95)
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)
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)
Spain, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Peter R. Bush
Lisa Dillman
ANTHOLOGY
These 30 short stories include a who's who of contemporary Spanish literature.
(SPN173, $13.95)
Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf
LITERATURE
A fictional memoir of the first 40 years in the life of Leo Africanus, a Muslim whose travels led him throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.
(MED55, $16.95)
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
LITERATURE
Bowles' most famous work, the tale of three people whose lives unravel in the desert of North Africa. Originally published in 1949.
(NAF09, $20.00)
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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