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| A Year in Marrakesh | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Mayne
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 40471
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 190
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0907871089
Dewey Decimal Number: 964.64
EAN: 9780907871088
ASIN: 0907871089
Publication Date: October 30, 2002
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| Customer Reviews:
 A small, sharp, lovely thing April 6, 2006
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
The writer's year in Marrakesh was not about seeing the sights and learning the history - rather, it was about his engagement with the real people of his neighbourhood as he gets drawn into their lives. A clearer picture than you get from the pompous, passive travel writing that casts an eye on a culture and tells you what to visit there. Thoroughly engaging.
 Fear and Loathing in Morocco May 21, 2003
77 out of 79 found this review helpful
Alright, so the title of this review is a little disingenuous, but this is a lost gem of leftfield travel writing with more than a little in common with 'beat' authors. Taking the North African hippy trail before it was even established, Mayne (NOT A Year in Provence's Peter Mayle) rented a room in Marrakesh's Medina (old town) with the aim of writing a novel. This novel has not survived but his journal of the time has, and it makes a brilliant read. Funny, self-deprecating, beautifully descriptive and packed with pungent characterization (but without any syncophantic obsession with his locale - Mayne loves his environs and Moroccan friends but that does not stem criticism if he feels it deserved).I cannot recommend this enough. For anyone with any interest in travel, North Africa, Kerouac's On the Road, Hunter S Thompson or a good tale well told.
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