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A Year in Marrakesh Lte and Lte Edition
Contributor(s): Mayne, Peter (Author)

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 ISBN: 0907871089     ISBN-13: 9780907871088
Publisher: Eland Publishing
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2003
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Travel | Asia - Southeast
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2003467110
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.58" W x 8.64" L (0.55 lbs) 190 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast Asian
 
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Publisher 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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