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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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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Travel writing

• Full title: Year in Marrakesh
• Author: Peter Mayne
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780907871088
• ISBN: 0907871089
• ID: 04176878
• Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 250 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 139 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. October 2002

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