Author: Peter Mayne
Publisher: Eland Publishing
ISBN: 9780907871088
Category : Marrakech (Morocco)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A new edition of a 1953 classic that captures the very essence Marrakesh and its people.

Author: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393080358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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"An enigmatic fable in the tradition of 'The Thousand and One Nights.' " —Anderson Tepper, New York Times Book Review Hassan, a storyteller, has gathered listeners in Marrakesh’s fabled Jemaa el Fna to perform his annual re-creation of the night on which two foreigners mysteriously disappeared from the square. But as his audience offers contradicting testimonies, and details transform or dissolve in the haze of memory, the couple takes on an air as enigmatic as their fate, leaving us to wonder whether Hassan is getting closer to the truth or, more disturbingly, is himself part of the mystery.

Author: Angelica Gray
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711238909
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Nicknamed ‘the rose among the palms’, the thousand-year-old city of Marrakesh is characterised by its pink-colored pisé architecture and its deeply rooted tradition for gardens and green spaces. The majority of historic sites are inextricable from their gardens – or indeed are historic green spaces: the huge royal orchard pleasure-gardens of the Agdal were described by Monty Don as ‘of international cultural importance on a par with Versailles or Villa d’Este’. Scores of traditional riads and hotels like the Mamounia, created by the French in 1923 on the site of an eighteenth-century royal residence, offer splendid gardens to the visitor. Yves Saint Laurent’s Majorelle garden is an icon of modern garden design. The first book to be published on this fascinating subject, Gardens of Marrakesh champions the city’s relevance today in a world of water scarcity and urban development and explores its green heritage, considering some twenty gardens both from an historic and cultural perspective.

Author: Maryam Montague
Publisher: Artisan
ISBN: 9781579657369
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Moroccan design, from the tiled floors to the colored walls, sculpted ceilings, embroidered fabrics, Berber tents, fountains, gardens, and more In a world filled with beige interiors, Morocco is the perfect antidote: a refuge for addicts of saturated color, a haven for devotees of intricate pattern, a destination for admirers of striking architecture. For anyone who wants to add Morocco's spicy design mix into their own home, Maryam Montague, the personality behind the award-winning blog My Marrakesh, explains how to do so with the building blocks of Moroccan design—from the colors, patterns, and textiles to the archways, fountains, gardens, and so much more. With illustrative text and gorgeous photographs, Maryam shows how Moroccan design comes to life in real villas and riads and in her own magnificent home and guesthouse. Eager DIYers will love the ideas presented in sidebars and in how-to projects that can be applied to homes anywhere. Filled with all the richness of Morocco,Marrakesh by Design will transport readers straight to the souks and salons of this exotic city while showing them the multitude of ways to live with the enticing elements of Moroccan design.

Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522863946
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.

Author: Peter Millar
Publisher: Arcadia Books
ISBN: 190980777X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and one-time glamrock fan Peter Millar uses what is now the country's best visited tourist destination as the embarkation point for a literally reverse-engineered train journey through this still exotic, diverse and challenging North African country, struggling to maintain its unique blend of tradition and tolerance in the turbulent winds of the Arab Spring.

Author: Richard Hamilton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857720155
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences. But this unique chain of oral tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation is teetering on the brink of extinction. The competing distractions of television, movies and the internet have drawn the crowds away from the storytellers and few have the desire to learn the stories and continue their legacy. Richard Hamilton has witnessed at first hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition and, in the labyrinth of the Marrakech medina, has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb.

Author: Barbara Stoeltie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500515051
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Takes the reader behind the high walls of the city's ancient, narrow streets to see the splendid riads they conceal. A host of glorious photographs make this book to relish and the detailed commentary of Marrakesh's houses and interiors make it an invaluable resource for anyone involved in interiors or design.

Author: Peter Mayne
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780353291843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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