Lords of the Atlas
The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956
$34.45
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
23 September 2004
Summary
Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, Lords of the Atlas tells the extraordinary story of the Madani and T’hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century. Quislings of the French colonial administration, they combined the aggression of gangland mobsters with the opulence of hereditary Indian princes, and ruled with a mixture of flamboyance and terror.On returning from …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780907871149 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0907871143 |
| Author: | Gavin Maxwell |
| Publisher: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 23 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 137mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“Contains may superb color photographs that enhance Maxwell’s lively narrative.”–“Library Journal”
’… one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century’ Richard Ford
‘To call it a travel book is as inadequate as calling a camel a quadruped.’ Geoffrey Moorhouse
’… his best book.’ Nigel Dennis, Sunday Telegraph
Gavin Maxwell
Gavin Maxwell was born in the south-west of Scotland and was educated at a succession of schools before taking a degree in Estate Management at Oxford. He served with the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War, after which he bought the island of Soay. As well as his famous otter books - Ring of Bright Water and The Rocks Remain - he also wrote the critically acclaimed People of the Reeds, an account of the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. He died in 1969.
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