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Lords of the Atlas

The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956

Gavin Maxwell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Eland Publishing Ltd

Published:24th Sep '04

Should be back in stock very soon

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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 available

ISBN: 9780907871149

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Weight: unknown

320 pages