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Article: Marrakech.(Brief article)(Book review)

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November 1, 2006
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Marrakech

Edited by Barnaby Rogerson & Stephen Lavington

[pounds sterling]12.99 Eland

ISBN 0-907871-99-2

There has never been a more fashionable or a more instantly exotic destination than Marrakech. It is a dream landscape, with the steel-blue backdrop of the High Atlas mountains, a hint of the desert, vast, weathered, red orange ramparts, tall tapering palms, orchards of oranges and verdant olives.

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In the evening, life concentrates on that disordered square of marvels, the Djemma el ...

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