| Author: |
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Peter Mayne
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| Title: |
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A Year in Marrakesh |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
| Binding: |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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190 |
| Date: |
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2003-06-13 |
| ISBN: |
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0907871089 |
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Eland Books |
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0.55 pounds |
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5.51 x 0.39 x 8.5 inches |
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2 andrea (USA: CA), Alistair (United Kingdom) |
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2 kwp (USA: CA), Peggy S. (USA: NC) |
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Product Description
Peter Mayne (1908-1979) is to Morocco what Peter Mayle is to Provence or Lawrence Durrell to Greece. This 1953 classic in a new edition captures the very essence of the people and place. Having already learned to appreciate Muslim life when he was in Pakistan, Mayne bought a house in the labyrinthine back streets of Marrakesh. He wanted to settle there, not as a privileged visitor in a hotel or grand villa, but as one of the inhabitants. He learned their language, made friends, took part in their festivals, and wrote their letters. This is not a travel book in the accepted sense of the word-it is a record of personal experience in a region of foreign life well beyond the tourist's eye. Mayne contrives in a deceptively simple prose to disseminate in the air of an English November the spicy odors of North Africa; he has turned, for an hour, smog to shimmering sunlight, woven a texture of extraordinary charm.
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