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A Year in Marrakesh

A Year in Marrakesh

Author(s): Peter Mayne

Location(s): Marrakech

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): 1950s

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Michael Palin picks A YEAR IN MARRAKESH by Peter Mayle as one of his top ten books. One of those travel classics in the Englishman (of some means) abroad vein, this shows a great deal of sensitivity to both Morocco and Marrakesh a country and city I love, too. Rather like Jan Morriss book on Venice, this takes relish in the place, and the life of the place, looking underneath the surface veneer. Its not so much a guide to the sights as the story of Maynes year there, the people he met and the problems of living there. The book is exquisitely written, it strikes just the right note throughout, and whenever I read it, I want to rush off there again. –The Mail on Sunday, 9 January 2011

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