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Morocco   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
We feature a handpicked selection of travel guides, maps, literature, books on art, nature and culture, all designed to help you get more out of your travels to Morocco. Order an essential package, and we'll ship any additional items for free.

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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)
  Eyewitness Guide Morocco
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)
  Dreams of Trespass, Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Living in Morocco  •  Angelika Taschen
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2002 •  HARD COVER  • 280 PAGES
From exquisite rugs and textiles to vibrant mosaics, courtyards and interiors, this gorgeous photographic collection celebrates the beauty and allure of Morocco. (MRC71, $29.99)
  Living in Morocco
The Caliph's House, A Year in Casablanca  •  Tahir Shah
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 343 PAGES
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, $14.00)
  The Caliph's House, A Year in Casablanca
Morocco Map 742  •   Michelin Travel Publications
2008 •  MAP
A detailed road map of Morocco for travelers with an overview at 1:4 million scale, north and central regions at 1:1,000,000, with Casablanca, Marrakesh and Atlas Mountain regions at at 1:600,000. Two Sides. 28x36 inches. (MRC13, $11.95)
  Morocco Map 742
 

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Marrakesh & Northern Morocco Map  •   ITMB    •  Featuring a detailed walking map of the Medina and surrounding New Town on one side and a map of Northern Morocco at 1:740,000 on the reverse. With insets of Rabat and Tangier. (MRC73, $10.95)
 
 
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  •  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  •  First published in 1958, Madame Guinaudeau's charming guide to Moroccan cuisine 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 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)
 
 
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, $20.00)
 
 
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 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 Arabian Nights, A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams  •  Tahir Shah   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Shah (The Caliph's House) weaves his own family tradition of storytelling with commentary on Moroccan spiritual traditions, culture and history in this account of his adopted home on the sea in Casablanca. (MRC80, $13.00)
 
 
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 • 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)
 
 
Morocco, In the Labyrinth of Dreams and Bazaars  •  Walter M. Weiss   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Weiss takes in Tangiers and Casablanca, the medieval centers of Fes and Meknes, remote Kasbahs in the Atlas mountains and the the bazaars of Marrakech in this account of modern travels through Morocco. (MRC98, $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)
 
 
Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems  •  Fatima Mernissi   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  With humor and depth, Mernissi (Dreams of Trespass) weaves biography, culture and a witty meditation on the myth and meanings of harems, sex and beauty in the Western and Muslim worlds. An independent-thinking modern Moroccan, Mernissi is a sociology professor in Rabat. (MRC87, $14.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
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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