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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) |
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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) |
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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 through the 1990s.
(NAF01, $15.95) |
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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) |
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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, $25.00) |
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North African Villages, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia
Norman Carver
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Stunning color and black-and-white photographs document the folk architecture, villages and markets of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in this book, with extensive accompanying notes and text by the author.
(TUN11, $29.95) |
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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. Surveys the history, literature and culture of the Berbers, exploring the identity they have forged in the region.
(NAF02, $43.95) |
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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, $24.95) |
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Moroccan Interiors
Lisa Lovatt-Smith
ART & ARCHITECTURE
OUT OF PRINT
A splendid collection of color photographs, organized geographically, with accompanying essays
(MRC52, $19.99) |
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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) |
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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
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) |
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Lords of the Atlas, The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua
Gavin Maxwell
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords of the Atlas tells the extraordinary story of Madani and T'hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early 20th century.
(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, $14.95) |
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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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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) |
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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) |
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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 novels and stories set in Morocco. Originally published in 1955.
(MRC08, $14.95) |
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Birds of Europe
Lars Svensson
Dan Zetterstrom
Killian Mullarney
FIELD GUIDE
FAVORITE
COMING IN OCTOBER
A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95) |
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