Africa, North -- Description and travel

Subject

Browse all works related to Africa, North -- Description and travel.

"31" Result

CLASSIC TRAVEL WRITING. In the spring and summer of 1931, Wyndham Lewis travelled to Morocco. Escaping the furore that surrounded the publication of his controversial book on Hitler, Lewis also intended to explore the culture of the Berbers of Morocco. Lewis' text predates the a…

"L'espace nord-africain est dit, généralement, dangereux pour l'étranger mais avec des points d'attraction physique qu'il entend découvrir. C'est à partir de cette ambivalence que prend sens le voyage dans ces récits étrangers. La narration, qui paraît de moindre intérêt par rap…

"Wilfred Thesiger, the great explorer-adventurer and author of 'Arabian Sands' and 'The Marsh Arabs', and one work of autobiography 'The Life of my Choice', became a legend in his own lifetime, but his character and motivations have remained an intriguing enigma. In this authori…

"A legend in his own lifetime (1910-2003), the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for sixty years in some of the remotest, most dangerous places on earth. His books, including Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs and The Life of My Choice, are widely acclaimed, yet - ev…

"A legend in his own lifetime (1910-2003), the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for sixty years in some of the remotest, most dangerous places on earth. His books, including Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs and The Life of My Choice, are widely acclaimed, yet - ev…