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Wharton’s Moroccan adventure: a journey through history and hidden beauty.

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    27 March 2015

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Summary

Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. In Morocco is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society, explored the country for a month by military vehicle. Travelling from Rabat and Fez to Moulay Idriss and Marrakech, she recorded her encounters with Morocco’s peoples, traditions, and ceremonies, capturing a co…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781909612594
ISBN-10:1909612596
Author:Edith Wharton
Publisher:John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
Imprint:John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Edition:3rd
Release Date:27 March 2015
Weight:156g
Dimensions:12mm x 143mm x 206mm
Series:Stanfords Travel Classics
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About The Author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was born in 1862 and died in 1937. Wharton was the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, for The Age of Innocence. She traveled widely in Morocco during the Great War.

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