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Title:

LORDS OF THE ATLAS
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GLAOUA 1893-1956

By:

Gavin Maxwell

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0907871143

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9780907871149

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Publisher:

ELAND PUBLISHING LTD

Pub. date:

24 September, 2004

Pages:

320

Description:

Madini and T'hami El Glaoui, sons of a Moroccan by an Ethiopian concubine, rose meteorically to power in the medieval state of Morocco at the end of the 19th century. This is the epic story of the more than 50 years in which they governed the country in barbaric, ostentatious splendor, until their spectacular downfall in 1956. Full-color photos.

Synopsis:

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

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Eland Publishing Ltd

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LORDS OF THE ATLAS