Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956 – Gavin Maxwell

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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