Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956 - Tapa blanda

Maxwell, Gavin

 
9780907871149: Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956
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ISBN 10: 0907871143 ISBN 13: 9780907871149
Editorial: Eland Publishing, 2026

Sinopsis

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

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Acerca del autor

Gavin Maxwell was born in the south-west of Scotland and was educated at a succession of schools before taking a degree in Estate Management at Oxford. He served with the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, after which he bought the island of Soay. As well as his famous otter books - Ring of Bright Water and The Rocks Remain - he also wrote the critically acclaimed People of the Reeds, an account of the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. He died in 1969.

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Lords of the Atlas is a classic story of Morocco and the rise and spectacular fall of the House of Glaoua. Madini and T'hami El Glaoui, sons of a Moroccan Caid by an Ethiopian concubine, rose meteorically to power in the almost medieval state of Morocco at the end of the nineteenth Century. This is the epic story of the more than fifty years in which they governed the country in barbaric, ostentatious splendor, until their spectacular downfall in 1956. Out of the intriguing and dramatic lives of Madair and T'hami, Gavin Maxwell has fashioned an epic story set against the superb background of Marrakesh and the pinnacled castles of the High Atlas, still magnificent as crumbling ruins. A dramatic history of intrigue, action, and exotic places, and illustrated with over one hundred color illustrations and photographs, Lords of the Atlas is a stunning look at the rise and fall of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating rulers. (8 X 9 3/4, 276 pages, color photos, b&w photos, map, illustrations)

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Editorial
Eland Publishing
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0907871143
ISBN 13 
9780907871149
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
322
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781585746330: Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1585746339 ISBN 13:  9781585746330
Editorial: Globe Pequot Press, 2002
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