This book first gained popular success during the 1880s when a blossoming public awareness followed upon the heels of Victorian expansionism. Coincidental with this came the spread of education amongst the English working classes, eager to discover more of the world around them. Alas, of the hundreds of such travelogues, few survive the test of time. De Amicis' work is a delightful exception to this rule, avoiding the dreary catalogue of topographical description and ignoring Victorian propensity for strict 'educational' value. Perhaps we have the author's Latin temperament to thank for a work brimming with amusing anecdote, as much devoted to gossip as to fact. Here is a work that remains fresh and enlivening despite the passage of years. For this reason, and for the numerous attractive engravings, it is a deserving subject for reprinting this fine facsimile edition.
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Librería: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Reino Unido
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Librería: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irlanda
Condición: New. 1985. Facsimile of 1882 ed. Hardcover. . . . . . Nº de ref. del artículo: V9781850770558
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Librería: Majestic Books, Hounslow, Reino Unido
Condición: New. Nº de ref. del artículo: 353882050
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Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
New edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 392 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Notes: Translation of : Marocco, first published in Milan in 1876. Includes index. Contents: 1. Tangiers -- 2. Had-el-Garbia -- 3. Tleta de Reissana -- 4. Alkazar-el-Kebir -- 5. Ben-Auda -- 6. Karia-el-Abbassi -- 7. Beni-Hassan -- 8. Sidi-Hassem -- 9. Zeguta -- 10. From Zeguta to Sagat -- 11. Fez -- 12. Mechinez -- 13. On the Sebu -- 14. Arzilla. Subjects: Manners and customs; Travel; Morocco Description and travel; Morocco Social life and customs; Morocco History. 1 Kg. Nº de ref. del artículo: 396795
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Librería: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. This account of de Amicis's work avoids the dreary catalogue of topographical description and provides us with a work brimming with amusing anecdote and remains fresh and enlivening despite the passage of the years. Nº de ref. del artículo: B9781850770558
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Librería: Brook Bookstore, Milano, MI, Italia
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Librería: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: New. 1985. Facsimile of 1882 ed. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Nº de ref. del artículo: V9781850770558
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Librería: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
New edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 392 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Notes: Translation of : Marocco, first published in Milan in 1876. Includes index. Contents: 1. Tangiers -- 2. Had-el-Garbia -- 3. Tleta de Reissana -- 4. Alkazar-el-Kebir -- 5. Ben-Auda -- 6. Karia-el-Abbassi -- 7. Beni-Hassan -- 8. Sidi-Hassem -- 9. Zeguta -- 10. From Zeguta to Sagat -- 11. Fez -- 12. Mechinez -- 13. On the Sebu -- 14. Arzilla. Subjects: Manners and customs; Travel; Morocco Description and travel; Morocco Social life and customs; Morocco History. 1 Kg. Nº de ref. del artículo: 396795
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Librería: Biblios, Frankfurt am main, HESSE, Alemania
Condición: New. Nº de ref. del artículo: 18358641687
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