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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $61, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXMRC73)		  
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)		   Trekking in the Moroccan Atlas
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)		   Lonely Planet Moroccan Arabic Phrasebook
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)		   Mogreb-El-Acksa, A Journey in Morocco
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)		   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 • BEST SELLER  •  Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact guide introduces Morocco's history, culture and attractions. (MRC58, $30.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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  •  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)
 		  
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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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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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 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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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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