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Eyewitness Guide Morocco
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2004 FLEXI-BOUND 400 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)
Dreams of Trespass, Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Fatima Mernissi
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 1995 PAPER 242 PAGES
FAVORITE
This gentle memoir captures the hierarchy and decorum of growing up behind the door of a harem, which, as the author explains, is not necessarily a collection of wives, but rather a house in which all the women of a family are secluded. The work is also an engrossing portrait of Fez in the 1940s. Mernissi, a sociologist, brings to vivid and often hilarious detail the exploits of the various women in the house: her mother, fighting against the veil, her grandmother, clinging to tradition, and especially a divorced aunt, who teaches her much about rebellion. Surely the most charming feminist tract ever written. (Mernissi has also written "Beyond the Veil," a scholarly study of relations between the genders in Muslim society, item MDE35.)
(MRC10, $17.00)
Living in Morocco
Barbara Stoeltie Rene Stoeltie Angelika Taschen
CULTURAL PORTRAIT 2002 HARD COVER 280 PAGES
An elegantly photographed overview of architecture, design and style in Morocco.
(MRC71, $29.99)
The Caliph's House, A Year in Casablanca
Tahir Shah
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 2006 PAPER 343 PAGES
NEW
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, $13.00)
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)
Marrakesh Map
World Mapping Project
A convenient city map including the coastal resort of Essaouria.
(MRC73, $8.99)
Culture Smart! Morocco
Jillian York
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(MRC70, $9.95)
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 Fez Encounter
Virginia Maxwell
GUIDEBOOK
This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map.
(MRC90, $11.99)
Lonely Planet Moroccan Arabic Phrasebook
Dan Bacon
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A handy phrasebook with pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary.
(MRC15, $8.99)
Traditional Moroccan Cooking, Recipes from Fez
Claudia Roden
Madame Guinaudeau
FOOD
Madame Guinaudeau's classic guide to Moroccan cuisine, first published in 1958, explores the rich culinary traditions of Fez with charming anecdotes, recipes, drawings and chapters on everything from choosing spices and preserving lemons to The Art of Making and Drinking Tea.
(MRC44, $14.95)
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)
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 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)
Morocco Courtyards and Gardens
Achva Benzinberg Stein
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Stein surveys the signature walled gardens of Morocco in this beautiful survey filled with vibrant color photographs and aerial views of courtyards dating back to the 14th century.
(MRC94, $50.00)
Rough Guide Music Morocco
Rough Guide World Music
MUSIC
A well chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of Morocco.
(MRC69, $14.98)
A Year in Marrakesh
Peter Mayne
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
This brilliantly entertaining, insightful classic account of Marrakesh captures the rhythm and spirit of life in the alleyways of the Medina in the 1950s.
(MRC55, $25.95)
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)
Lords of the Atlas, The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua
Gavin Maxwell
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
COMING IN AUGUST
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 the Madani and T'hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century.
(MRC35, $32.95)
Mogreb-El-Acksa, A Journey in Morocco
R B Cunninghame Graham
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Among the pleasures of this classic account of Cunninghame's trek to the forbidden city of Tarudant, originally published in 1898, is his portrait of Berber life in Morocco's High Atlas.
(MRC11, $19.95)
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)
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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