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Eyewitness Guide Spain
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 720 PAGES
This superb, colorful guide covers all of Spain. It features bright photography, dozens of excellent maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and accessible, this is the guide to carry.
(SPN05, $30.00) |
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Islam, The Straight Path
• John L. Esposito
RELIGION •
2010 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
A well-written survey of the faith, practice and beliefs of Islam. It's a balanced tone intended for an undergraduate audience, yet it also functions as an excellent overview for the general reader.
(MDE22, $49.95) |
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Lonely Planet Morocco
• Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 540 PAGES
A comprehensive, practical guide to Morocco in the hallmark Lonely Planet style featuring a section of color photographs and excellent local maps. Geared for the independent traveler, the book includes a good introduction to the country in addition to the usual nuts-and-bolts information on where to go, sleep and eat. It includes information on trekking routes in the High Atlas and Rif mountains.
(MRC19, $25.99) |
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Morocco That Was
• Walter Harris
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
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. Originally published in 1921.
(MRC59, $34.95) |
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Sahara Unveiled, A Journey across the Desert
• William Langewiesche
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 302 PAGES
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 Sand Child
• Alan Sheridan
• Tahar Ben Jelloun
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 165 PAGES
The politically charged story of Mohammed Ahmed, a girl raised as a boy to escape the limited life offered women in Islamic society. The award-winning Moroccan author continues the story in "The Sacred Night," when Mohammed gives up her disguise.
(MRC27, $22.95) |
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Spanish Recognitions, The Roads to the Present
• Mary Lee Settle
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 358 PAGES
A magical, meditative account of Spanish history, art, archaeology and travels by the noted writer. Settle (Turkish Reflections) conjures Cervantes, El Cid, the Moors, Visgoths, Romans, Lorca and Balboa as she writes of a road trip from Castile in central Spain to the southern coast.
(SPN205, $15.95) |
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A Street in Marrakech, A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco
• Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1988 •
PAPER
• 382 PAGES
Ethnographically sound and accessible, this lively account of an American woman's unpredictable journey though the private and public world's of a traditional Muslim city includes marvelous descriptions of daily life in and around the medina in Marrakech. First p[published in 1972, it shows the city on the brink of change.
(MRC29, $26.95) |
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A Year in Marrakesh
• Peter Mayne
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 190 PAGES
This brilliantly entertaining, insightful classic account of Marrakesh captures the rhythm and spirit of life in the backways of the Medina in the 1950s. First published by John Murray as The Alleys of Marrakesh.
(MRC55, $27.95) |
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