Search Results for ‘Morocco’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 10 matches found
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| Author: | Peter Mayne |
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 112062 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Having learned to appreciate Muslim life while living in Pakistan, Peter Mayne settled down to live in the back streets of Marrakesh in the 1950s. Rather than watch from the shelter of a hotel terrace...
| Author: | Sven Lindqvist |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Catalogue number: | 105071 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Officially about the hold the Sahara has over the western psyche, Sven Lindqvist’s short book continually evokes the starkness, harshness and loneliness experienced there. He also intertwines a memoir...
Morocco: In The Labyrinth of Dreams and Bazaars
| Author: | Walter M. Weiss |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 142055 |
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In “Morocco - In The Labyrinth Of Dreams”, Walter M. Weiss travels the breadth and depth of this magnificent country’s social and geographical contrasts. He visits the settings of modern legends, such...
| Author: | Tahir Shah |
| Publisher: | Bantam |
| Catalogue number: | 154325 |
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Writer and film maker Tahir Shah moved his family away from draining British life to start again in Casablanca - a place of colour, history and romance. This long-abandoned house on the edge of the...
| Author: | Esther Freud |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 135350 |
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In Esther Freud's Hideous Kinky, two little girls are taken by their feckless young mother to Morocco on a '60s pilgrimage of self-discovery. And while she immerses herself in the Sufi religion, her...
| Author: | Edith Wharton |
| Publisher: | I B Tauris |
| Catalogue number: | 127034 |
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A classic piece of travel writing, “In Morocco” is Edith Wharton’s remarkable account of her journey to the country during World War One and was subsequently published in 1921. With a characteristic...
| Author: | Edith Wharton |
| Series: | Stanfords Travel Classics |
| Publisher: | JB Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 171879 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. “In Morocco” is the classic account of her expedition.
A seemingly...
In the Glow of the Phantom Palace
| Author: | Michael Jacobs |
| Publisher: | Pallas Athene |
| Catalogue number: | 84278 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Jacobs is considered one of the leading Hispanists of his generation. This is his meditation on Andalusia, its Islamic heritage and the romantic allure it has exercised on generations of Western travellers...
| Author: | Elias Canetti |
| Publisher: | Marion Boyars Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 36494 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This book was first published in the U.K. in 1982, and originally published in Germany in 1967. In fact, as becomes apparent, Canetti¿s stories date from a period when he was with a film crew in the...
Marrakesh - Through Writer's Eyes
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 145387 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
There has never been a more fashionable nor a more instantly exotic destination than Marrakesh. It is a dream landscape, with the steel-blue backdrop of the High Atlas mountains, a hint of the desert...
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Morocco - Lamb shank and prune tagine
A Little Taste of Morocco. In most Moroccan villages, the midday meal is the main meal of the day, which usually begins with two or three salads, followed by a tagine.
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The outdoor writer’s Christmas
When everyone else seems to be rushing round like turkeys to the slaughter, I always find that Christmas creeps up on me unawares. Sometimes, I start to take notice of it as late as 23rd December. My main concern, if I plan on going anywhere, involves working round the fact that public transport grinds to a halt.
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Stanfords is sponsoring a team of people who plan to ride from Scotland to Morocco and back on scooters to raise money for charity.
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John Simpson, the renowned BBC world affairs editor,visited Stanfords in London to discuss his new book - Not Quite World’s End. John has graced our screens for 40 years in a career that has seen him reporting from the front line in various war-torn parts of the world...
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Chris Stewart, the drummer from Genesis' first album, is today better known as the witty author of Driving Over Lemons, A Parrot in the Pepper Tree and The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society. He visited Stanfords to reveal how to write travel books.
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Morocco - Marrakech, Toubkal, Essaouira
Despite having a good map it wasn’t until my third day in Marrakesh that I managed to navigate my way purposefully and accurately through the maze of alleys in the souks to reach everyone’s primary and ultimate destination...
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James Innes Williams has the chance to quiz travel and history writer Anthony Sattin on a Travellers' Tales writing course in Morocco...
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Marrakech – the streets have no name, the maps are a picture of noodle soup and the whole city is an assault on all the senses.
Single-serving friends pop up around every corner and yet it seems that round the next bend there’s danger lurking.
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Morocco - The Rif and The Mediterranean
My chosen summer destination in 2006 was the Rif, an area of Morocco steeped in history and a site in modern times of transit and migration between Africa and Europe. The Rif stretches from the intense, profligate Tangier...
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For those wanting a city break with a little more spice Marrakech is perfect. It is a vibrant, tantalizing blend of North African, Middle Eastern and European cultures which arouses all the senses. Stroll through the souqs to find craftsmen making traditional silver jewellery, ornate leather slippers and wooden toys. Then for the brave...
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I had never been to Africa before, and the prospect of arriving in Marrakech, at night, after a brief stop at Casablanca, was thrilling. The airport is hardly luxurious, and before long the dry heat began to make itself felt as we waited in line to have our passport stamped.
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