Lords of the Atlas by 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 - a perennial classic for the backlist which will sell and sell - POS material availableGavin Maxwell was up in a small community in southwestern Scotland, where he developed an interest in nature. When he was an adult, he went on a tour of the reed marshes of Southern Iraq, he kept his passion for exploration alive. He captured an otter there and returned it to his isolated Scottish house of Sandaig. The otter was the topic of his most well-known novel, Ring of Brilliant Water, which went on to sell over a million copies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780907871149 |
| ISBN 10 | 0907871143 |
| Title | Lords of the Atlas |
| Author | Gavin Maxwell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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