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Article: Marrakesh: Through Writers' Eyes.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Middle East
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- January 1, 2007
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MARRAKESH THROUGH WRITERS' EYES Edited by Barnaby Rogerson and Stephen Lavington Published by Eland ISBN 0 9078 7199 2 price 12.99 [pounds sterling] paperback
There has never been a more instantly exotic destination than Marrakesh. 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. Djemaa El Fna, that huge, disordered square of marvels, lively at any hour of day, comes into its own at ...