Books
These are some of the books available concerning Morocco. Click on the titles to learn more about the books (in a new window).
Books published by travel literature specialist Eland are available from their online store www.travelbooks.co.uk
Travel Guides
Country Hotels (teNeues Publishing) contains 400 pages of spectacular and informative photography on Caravanserai, Tigmi, Les Deux Tours and 2 riads in the median of Marrakech as well as other hotels throughout the world. it details their size, facilities, date opened, architect, interior designer and contact details.
Best of Morocco is pleased to offer you this book at a reduced price of £11.25 including delivery (please telephone). It features 10 pages of pictures on Caravanserai, 8 pages on Tigmi and 8 pages on Les Deux Tours.
General
- Morocco Modern - Herbert Ypma
- Hip Hotels: Budget - Herbert Ypma (Features Caravanserai)
- The Hotel Book - Great Escapes in Africa (Features 14 pages of text and pictures of Caravanserai)
African Interior Design includes 450 photos on 400 pages, with sections on Caravanserai and Tigmi- Morocco - Mark Luscombe-Whyte and Dominic Bradbury (ISBN 1840912847) published by Conran Octopus is a photographic celebration of Moroccan design and architecture, exploring traditional, colonial and modern interiors, offering exotic inspiration and a fascinating theory.
- Pools with superb photos by Pere Planells
- Living in Morocco
- Zohra's Ladder - A collection of tales about Morocco
Atlas Mountains
Food and Drink
Judaism
Birds
Fear of Flying
Morocco That Was - published by Eland Books
Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondent he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic splendour.
Harris was an intimate of at least three of the ruling Sultans and a man even capable of befriending his kidnapper. It was said that only three Christians had ever visited the walled city of Chechaouen; one was poisoned, one came for an hour disguised as a rabbi...the other was Walter Harris.
Marrakech, the Red City - published by Eland Books
A collection of all the most insightful, amusing, chilling, disturbing, romantic and evocative writing about Marrakech. A literary treasure-chest that includes such classics as Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud's childhood memories of the Hippy Trail and The Voices of Marrakech - Elias Canetti's harrowing chronicle into spiritual riches and numbing poverty. It is a fascinating collection: from the first recorded impressions of Ibn Battuta and Leo Africanus to George Orwell's analysis of racial politics, through the insights of Edith Wharton, Sacheverell Sitwell and Gavin Maxwel to Bensusan's description of the workings of the old slave market. Is all here: a kaleidoscope of views, angles and impressions that like some modernist collage, frames a convincingly focused picture of an endlessly fascinating city.
A Year in Marrakech - published by Eland Books
Having learned to appreciate Muslim life while living in Pakistan, Peter Mayne settled down to live in the back streets of Marrakech in the 1950s. Rather than watch from the shelter of a hotel terrace, he rented rooms, learned the language, made friends, and became embroiled in conspiratorial picnics, hashish-laced dinners and in the enchantments and misunderstandings of the street, with its festivals, love affairs, potions and gossip.
By turns used, abused and cherished by his neighbours, Mayne wrote their letters for them and captured the essence of their lives in this affectionate and hilarious account.
Lords of the Atlas - published by Eland Books
Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords of the Atlas, by Gavin Maxwell, tells the extraordinary story of the Madani and T'hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century. Quislings of the French colonial administration, they combined the aggression of gangland mobsters with the opulence of hereditary Indian princes, and ruled with a mixture of flamboyance and terror.
On returning from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, T'hami ordered the severed heads of his enemies to be mounted on his gates. Yet in 1956, when the French left Morocco, the Glaoua regime toppled like a pack of cards.
