About This Book
The author recounts an exploratory journey across the Atlas Mountains and the oases of the north-west Sahara, describing preparations, routes, and the practical difficulties of travel. He presents vivid urban scenes from Marakesh and sequences of mountain ascent and descent, with sustained attention to Berber villages, valley landscapes, and local customs. The narrative includes encounters with local authorities during a royal progress and considers political and logistical challenges. Ethnographic observations, sketch maps, photographs, and numerous illustrations accompany detailed chapter-by-chapter accounts of places such as Dads, Ul Turug, and Tafilet, and a concluding account of the return journey.
About the Author
More Books by This Author
1 picks
You May Also Like
6 picks
Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. / Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together With Observations on the Manners of the Indians.
by William Bartram
A Tour Through the Pyrenees
by Hippolyte Taine
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
by Sir James McCrone Douie
An American Hobo in Europe / A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country
by Ben Goodkind
Owindia : a true tale of the MacKenzie River Indians, North-West America
by Charlotte Selina Bompas
Directions for Navigating on Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland, with a Chart Thereof, Including the Islands of St. Peter's and Miquelon / And a Particular Account of the Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-marks, Depths of Water, Latitudes, Bearings, and Distances from Place to Place, the Setting of the Currents, and Flowing of the Tides, &c., from an Actual Survey, Taken by Order of Commodore Pallisser, Governor of Newfoundland, Labradore, &c.
by James Cook