Search Results for ‘Morocco’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 11 matches found

A Year in Marrakesh

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...

Desert Divers

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

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...

The Caliph's House

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...

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 children seek something more solid...

In Morocco

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...

In Morocco

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...

Silent Day in Tangier

This is the story of a man led astry by the wind, forgotten by time, and scorned by death. A man whose asthma attacks are the result of collusion between the demons of Tangier and the East Wind. Written...

The Sand Child

Mohammed Ahmed is the eighth daughter of a Hajji Ahmed. Under Islamic law, a man's daughter can only inherit one third of his wealth. He decides the last child will be a boy regardless of its gender...

Voices of Marrakesh

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

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...