Marrakesh: Through Writers' Eyes by Lavington (English) Paperback Book

Description: Marrakesh by Lavington, Richard Gooding Features, perhaps the most fashionable, talked about, photographed city in Africa, which is home to Yves St Laurent, the Bransons and others. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description There has never been a more fashionable nor a more instantly exotic destination than Marrakesh. It is a dream landscape, with the steel-blue backdrop of the High Atlas mountains, a hint of the desert, vast, weathered, red earth ramparts, tall tapering palms, orchards of oranges and verdant olives. In the evening, life concentrates on that disordered square of marvelsthe Djemma el Fna – where storytellers, fortune-tellers and acrobats weave their nightly magic – and the packed, festive alleys of the souk. This book explores this mystique through the researches, speculations and scholarship of forty travel writers who have succumbed to the enchantment of the city. Author Biography Barnaby Rogerson is a writer, publisher and television presenter. Barnaby has appeared on the BBC Life of Muhammad, Al Jazeeras Caliph and in many of Pilot productions, Muslim Empires series.Barnaby was born in Scotland in 1960. Travel was a vital aspect of his childhood which followed in the wake of his fathers career in the Royal Navy with postings to Gibraltar, Malta, Skye and Virginia. A degree in History from St Andrews University proved to be adequate preparation for work as a barman, tutor for a child star in a film made on a Greek island and a pony boy on a Highland estate. He worked for two independent publishers which led to a job in the press department of the Afghanistan Support Committee. A chance encounter in the Outer Hebrides led to his first commission to write a guidebook: Morocco (which went into six editions) was followed by Tunisia, Cyprus, Istanbul and Libya. Research for these guidebooks was partly funded by working as a lecturer, tour guide and journalist. A scrapbook of over three hundred articles (written for Cornucopia, TLS, Independent, Guardian, Telegraph and Country Life) has subsequently been pasted up on a website, Barnaby Rogerson.comThe birth of two daughters encouraged him to stay at home more often, so he wrote a History of North Africa, followed by a Biography of the Prophet Muhammad, then an account of the early Caliphate, The Heirs of the Prophet. The Last Crusaders (1415-1580) was an ambitious attempt to show how the Crusades against North Africa and the Ottoman Empire led to the emergence of the first colonial conquest states. This would be followed by In Search of Ancient North Africa, which tells the complex story of conquest and assimilation through six lives. He has recently finished A House Divided, a book looking at conflict zones within the Middle East complicated by the Shia-Sunni schism within Islam.Barnaby has also worked on a number of joint projects. He contributed the text for Don McCullins photographic study of Roman North Africa and the Levant, Southern Frontiers, co-edited a collection of the contemporary travel writing Ox-Tales for the charity Oxfam, edited a collection of the travel literature of Marrakech, a collection of contemporary travel encounters with Islam; Meetings with Remarkable Muslims, a collection of English Orientalist verse, Desert Air, and a collection of the poetry of place of London. He has also put together a collection of the sacred numbers of the world, Rogersons Book of Numbers.Barnaby was on the advisory board of Critical Muslim, the editorial board of Middle East in London and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Royal Society of Asian Affairs. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a made an honorary member of The Travellers Club.His day job is running Eland, a publishing house, which specializes in keeping classic travel books in print: Long Description A combination of accounts by famous travelers from Rebecca West to Laurence Durrell and Firzroy Maclean, this collection brings together for the first time, stories from the war, crusader knights, and hauntingly macabre traditional tales. Details ISBN0907871992 Series Through Writers Eyes Language English ISBN-10 0907871992 ISBN-13 9780907871996 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Imprint Eland Publishing Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 914.972043 Short Title MARRAKESH Subtitle Through Writers Eyes DOI 10.1604/9780907871996 UK Release Date 2006-08-25 NZ Release Date 2006-08-25 Author Richard Gooding Pages 304 Publisher Eland Publishing Ltd Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-08-25 Edited by Richard Gooding Audience General AU Release Date 2006-10-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145095362;

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