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WILDERNESS TRAVEL
Morocco: High Atlas Trek
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Trekking in the Moroccan Atlas
Richard Knight
GUIDEBOOK
2010
PAPER
256 PAGES
A compact, practical guide to exploring the High Atlas mountains with additional chapters on Marrakesh and Ouarzazate. It includes 43 route guides, maps and a color section on flora and fauna.
(MRC33, $22.95) |
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Lonely Planet Moroccan Arabic Phrasebook
Dan Bacon
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
2008
PAPER
176 PAGES
This handy phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary.
(MRC15, $8.99) |
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Mogreb-El-Acksa, A Journey in Morocco
R B Cunninghame Graham
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1997
PAPER
358 PAGES
Originally published in 1898, this is a classic account of a trek into the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and the forbidden city of Tarudant. It includes, among its many pleasures, an excellent portrait of Berber life at the turn of the century, much enhanced by Graham's offhand bravery and wit.
(MRC11, $19.95) |
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Morocco Map
Michelin Travel Publications
2009
MAP
BEST SELLER
A road map in the Michelin style, featuring city and town plans, as well as a full place name index. Tough cardboard cover. Scale 1:1,000,000. Two Sides. 28x36 inches.
(MRC13, $11.95) |
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Also Recommended
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) |
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Eyewitness Guide Morocco
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
BEST SELLER
Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact guide introduces Morocco's history, culture and attractions.
(MRC58, $30.00) |
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Walking
Henry David Thoreau
REFERENCE
Slip this pocket edition of Thoreau's meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel in your daypack for inspiration.
(WLK04, $9.99) |
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Arabesque, A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
Claudia Roden
FOOD
With 100 color photos of food, people and places, this enchanting cookbook by a leading authority is filled with not just subtle, simple recipes but also stories, culture and history.
(MED99, $37.50) |
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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 to 1999.
(NAF01, $15.95) |
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Islam, A Short History
Karen Armstrong
HISTORY
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.
(ISL15, $15.95) |
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Morocco Since 1830, A History
C. R. Pennell
HISTORY
A strong scholarly history of modern Morocco, with a focus on the colonial influences that have helped shape the cultural landscape.
(MRC31, $26.00) |
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Morocco, Quest for the Kasbah
Richard Bangs
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Adventure traveler Bangs explores the concept of the Kasbah in modern Morocco, taking a camel trek through the Sahara, hiking in the High Atlas and delving into city life.
(MRC102, $16.95) |
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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. It surveys the history, literature and culture of the Berbers, exploring the identity they have forged in the region.
(NAF02, $49.95) |
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Islamic Arts
Jonathan Bloom
Sheila Blair
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A comprehensive survey of 1,000 years of Islamic architecture, design and decoration. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps and site plans.
(ISL01, $27.95) |
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Allah's Garden
Thomas Hollowell
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The gripping memoir of a doctor who, with more than 1700 other Moroccans, was held as a POW in Western Sahara for 25 years.
(MRC118, $14.95) |
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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) |
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In Morocco
Edith Wharton
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Wharton's enjoyable account of her month-long journey through Morocco after WWI captures the landscapes, architecture and many aspects of Muslim culture and history, and especially the cities of Rabat, Fez and Marrakech.
(MRC02, $10.95) |
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Lords of the Atlas
Gavin Maxwell
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
Set in the medieval city of Marrakech and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, this is a rousing history and a vivid portrait of life in French colonial Morocco. Maxwell (Ring of Bright Water) follows the fate of the despotic Glaoui clan from 1893 to independence.
(MRC35, $32.95) |
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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) |
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Sahara Unveiled, A Journey across the Desert
William Langewiesche
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Traveling across the Sahara from Algiers to Dakar, Langeweische has written an uncommonly good memoir of the desert, with meditations on its history, inhabitants and allure.
(NAF05, $16.00) |
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The Caliph's House, A Year in Casablanca
Tahir Shah
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
BEST SELLER
Shah is a marvelous storyteller, weaving Moroccan customs and history with deft portraits of neighbors, craftsmen and others in this entertaining tale of the transformation of a crumbling palace in Casablanca.
(MRC66, $16.00) |
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Berber Odes, Poetry from the Mountains of Morocco
Michael Peyron
LITERATURE
Peyron draws on his rich oral recordings from the last of the traditional bards, collected over the last 50 years, for this illuminating collection.
(MRC123, $16.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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, $22.95) |
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The Serpent's Daughter
Suzanne Arruda
MYSTERY
With lots of colorful background on Moroccan history and culture, Jade del Cameron (what a name!) is accused by the French colonial authorities of killing a man.
(MRC83, $16.00) |
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The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
LITERATURE
Bowles' most famous work, by turns stark and transcendent, is a tale of three people whose lives unravel in the desert of North Africa. Originally published in 1949.
(NAF09, $14.99) |
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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 works set in Morocco. Originally published in 1955.
(MRC08, $14.99) |
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Birds of Europe
Lars Svensson
FIELD GUIDE
FAVORITE
Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps.
(FG47, $29.95) |
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