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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)

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 •  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)

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Marrakesh & Essaouira Map •   World Mapping Project • This full-color walking map includes insets of the Medina and the coastal town of Essaouira. (MRC73, $8.99)

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)

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 • 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)

Traditional Moroccan Cooking, Recipes from Fez •  Claudia Roden •  Madame Guinaudeau • FOOD • Madame Guinaudeau's charming guide to Moroccan cuisine, first published in 1958, 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)

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 penetrating look at political, social and cultural life in Morocco under King Mohammed V, by a former New York Times correspondent. (MRC75, $16.95)

The Conquest of Morocco •  Douglas Porch • HISTORY • Porch 's scholarly yet lively 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 • This album features two of Morocco's musical giants, Jil Jilala and Nass El Ghiwane, the best-loved Moroccan female group, Bnet Marrakech and the greatest al aita star of modern times, Fatna Bent El Houcine. (MRC69, $14.95)

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 NOVEMBER • 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)

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)

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)

Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish •  Dorothy Gilman • MYSTERY • The tenth book in the series takes unlikely CIA agent Mrs. Pollifax to Morocco. (MRC96, $6.99)

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 novels and stories set in Morocco. Originally published in 1955. (MRC08, $14.95)

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	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)
	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 • 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 & Essaouira Map • World Mapping Project • This full-color walking map includes insets of the Medina and the coastal town of Essaouira. (MRC73, $8.99)
	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)
	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 • 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)
	Traditional Moroccan Cooking, Recipes from Fez • Claudia Roden • Madame Guinaudeau • FOOD • Madame Guinaudeau's charming guide to Moroccan cuisine, first published in 1958, 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)
	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 penetrating look at political, social and cultural life in Morocco under King Mohammed V, by a former New York Times correspondent. (MRC75, $16.95)
	The Conquest of Morocco • Douglas Porch • HISTORY • Porch 's scholarly yet lively 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 • This album features two of Morocco's musical giants, Jil Jilala and Nass El Ghiwane, the best-loved Moroccan female group, Bnet Marrakech and the greatest al aita star of modern times, Fatna Bent El Houcine. (MRC69, $14.95)
	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 NOVEMBER • 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)
	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)
	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)
	Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish • Dorothy Gilman • MYSTERY • The tenth book in the series takes unlikely CIA agent Mrs. Pollifax to Morocco. (MRC96, $6.99)
	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 novels and stories set in Morocco. Originally published in 1955. (MRC08, $14.95)