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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 964.64 EAN: 9780907871088 Edition: New Ed ISBN: 0907871089 Label: Eland Publishing Ltd Manufacturer: Eland Publishing Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 190 Publication Date: October 30, 2002 Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd Studio: Eland Publishing Ltd Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A small, sharp, lovely thingThe writer's year in Marrakesh was not about seeing the sights and learning the history - rather, it was about his engagement with the real people of his neighbourhood as he gets drawn into their lives. A clearer picture than you get from the pompous, passive travel writing that casts an eye on a culture and tells you what to visit there. Thoroughly engaging. Rating:  - Fear and Loathing in MoroccoAlright, so the title of this review is a little disingenuous, but this is a lost gem of leftfield travel writing with more than a little in common with 'beat' authors. Taking the North African hippy trail before it was even established, Mayne (NOT A Year in Provence's Peter Mayle) rented a room in Marrakesh's Medina (old town) with the aim of writing a novel. This novel has not survived but his journal of the time has, and it makes a brilliant read. Funny, self-deprecating, beautifully descriptive and packed with pungent characterization (but without any syncophantic obsession with his locale - Mayne loves his environs and Moroccan friends but that does not stem criticism if he feels it deserved). I cannot recommend this enough. For anyone with any interest in travel, North Africa, Kerouac's On the Road, Hunter S Thompson or a good tale well told.  Try searching the Internet for "A Year in Marrakesh" or Ebay for "A Year in Marrakesh". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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