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Peter Mayne (1908-1979) is to Morocco what Peter Mayle is to Provence or Lawrence Durrell to Greece. This 1953 classic in a new edition captures the very essence of the people and place. Having already learned to appreciate Muslim life when he was in Pakistan, Mayne bought a house in the labyrinthine back streets of Marrakesh. He wanted to settle there, not as a privileged visitor in a hotel or grand villa, but as one of the inhabitants. He learned their language, made friends, took part in their festivals, and wrote their letters. This is not a travel book in the accepted sense of the word - it is a record of personal experience in a region of foreign life well beyond the tourist's eye. Mayne contrives in a deceptively simple prose to disseminate in the air of an English November the spicy odors of North Africa; he has turned, for an hour, smog to shimmering sunlight, woven a
Produkt A Year in Marrakesh (Mayne Peter)(Paperback) označuje EAN kód 9780907871088.
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Peter Mayne (1908-1979) is to Morocco what Peter Mayle is to Provence or Lawrence Durrell to Greece. This 1953 classic in a new edition captures the very essence of the people and place. Having already learned to appreciate Muslim life when he was in Pakistan, Mayne bought a house in the
Discover the chic, boutique and unique sides of Marrakesh in this latest release in the popular Curious Travel Guide series. Mosaics and the Medina in Marrakesh is a comprehensive guide to the very best places to eat, drink, shop and explore in this ancient city. Go beyond the souq's intoxicating
National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Luberon with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it
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From embracing the frenzied souks of Marrakesh to camping in the otherworldly Sahara, experience Morocco at your own speed with Moon Marrakesh & Beyond.Explore In and Around the City: Wander Marrakesh's most interesting areas like the medina and Ville Nouvelle or head to Toubkal National Park or
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Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley and began a new life. This work lets you discover the joys
In the distant future, Mayn, an exemplary spaceship officer, gets cruelly banished to a remote asteroid. He records his survival schemes (between ingenious and desperate), but can only scour his memory for clues as to who and why... In part two, find out how this man engineered the perfect
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller In the tradition of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence, let the author of I'll Never Be French introduce you to Brittany a world of color and flavor that most of us only fantasize about. Every year upon arriving in Plobien, the small Breton town where he spends his
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20 circular walks in the Peak District countryside. A guide to the best walks for spring, summer, winter and autumn, each with a local pub or cafe recommended for its good food and what to look out for along the
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This collection of exquisite meditations is vintage Michael Mayne. Originally given as a series of retreat addresses, it focuses on timeless aspects of spiritual experience and means of growth: - Discovering the gifts of silence - Redemption at work in human life - Seeing with the heart -
The Bradt guide to Svalbard, including Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen, is a unique, standalone guidebook to this evocative Arctic archipelago, a place that is plunged into darkness for four months each year and where there are 4,000 snow scooters for a population of just 2,500, and
Morocco is an exhilarating combination of vivid sensuality and intense spirituality, an intoxicating blend of cultures. Berber, Arab, French, English, and Spanish: the country's rich mixture of heritages is matched by its geography, which ranges from coast to mountain to desert. This revised
Captures the essence of Marrakesh: the crowds, the smells - of spices, camels and the souks - and the sounds of the city, from the cries of the blind beggars and the children's call for alms to the unearthly silence on the still roofs above the
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