This is the classic account of the ruthless House of Glaoua, rulers of Morocco from 1893-1956, by the author of the international bestseller Ring o...
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Mar 27, 2008
Andrew
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Maxwell has an ear and an eyeball rolled in every kasbah's blanket, every Pasha's golfing bag, every harem's keyhole, every red Martian craig of the High Atlas, every Sultan's treasury, and gilded box, and long handshake, and column of tea poured too far above its little glass. He has a good guess at what every passing feudalist thinks about his neighboring fief. He saw France rinse white vampire hands as Morocco passed its medieval placenta into the 20th century, oozing with old blood stuck t
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Jun 24, 2009
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An account of the rise and fall--- blood on the way up, even more blood on the way down ---of a Moroccan clan amid the politics of the twentieth century, amid French colonialism, independence, war, and a dizzying cascade of alliances and betrayals. My edition is illustrated with breathtakingly beautiful photos of the country--- the cities, the Atlas mountains, the Rif ---and the landscape only emphasises the fates of the Glaoua and their allies and enemies. The old saying is true enough here: yo
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