Lords of the Atlas : The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956
Author(s): Gavin Maxwell
The greatest Moroccan travel book of all time:vital reading for the new upmarket Marrakesh tourism - one of the bibles of British twentieth-century Orientalism - by the author of A Ring of Bright Water - describes the extraordinary medieval nature of Morocco in the twentieth century, focussing on a family who combined the lethal elegance of gangland mobsters with the opulent charm of hereditary Indian princes, fed by a monopoly in drugs and prostitution. First published 1966.
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- : 23 September 2004
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