LORDS OF THE ATLAS: Morocco and the Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua - Brossura

Maxwell, Gavin

 
9780304354191: LORDS OF THE ATLAS: Morocco and the Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua
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ISBN 10: 0304354198 ISBN 13: 9780304354191
Casa editrice: Cassel, 2000

Sinossi

Set against the superb background of the medieval city of Marrakesh and the pinnacled castles of the Atlas Mountains, this book tells the story of the meteoric rise to power of an orginally obscure warrior tribe, the Glaoua, and their equally sudden and spectacular downfall.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Gavin Maxwell was born in 1914, educated at Stowe and Oxford and served in the Scots Guard during the Second World War. Invalided out in 1944 he bought the Island of Soay and set up his Basking Shark fishery there ¿ the subject of his first book, Harpoon at a Venture, (1952). Other books include A Reed Shaken by the Wind (1958), an account of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, The House of Elrig (1956), an autobiography of his childhood, and his world famous West Highland books about otters: Ring of Bright Water (1960), The Rocks Remain (1963) and Raven Seek Thy Brother (1969). He died in 1969.

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Editore
Cassel
Data di pubblicazione
2000
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0304354198
ISBN 13 
9780304354191
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
272
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Persona responsabile
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