Lords of the Atlas, By Gavin Maxwell

Travel Exploration Offers a Hand Curated and Select Picks of Morocco Books to read before you go. The Books to Read before you visit Morocco offer an insight into the country’s history, culture and traditions. Preparing an exciting Reading list of Morocco Books ranging from History to  Fiction and Non Fiction as well as Design & Decor is part of the the holiday planning process. To better understand Morocco’s traditions carve out time to list to Moroccan Music and watch Moroccan Films. From Galvin Maxwell’s account of the rise and fall of the House of Glaoui to Tahir Shah’s story of moving his family to  Casablanca and Paul Bowles, Spider’s House that weaves a web through the ancient medina of Fes Travel Exploration’s Reading List is a must for your Morocco adventure.

READING LIST (Available on Amazon.com & Barnes & Noble.com)

HISTORY  (Available on Amazon.com & Barnes & Noble.com)

• Morocco That Was – By  Water Harris
• Morocco Since 1830  –  By C.R. Pennell
• Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua  –  By Gavin Maxwell
• The Conquest of Morocco – By Douglass Porch

FICTION & NON- FICTION  

• Culture & Customs in Morocco – By Raphael Njoku
• In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams – By Tahir Shah
• The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca – By Tahir Shah
• The Spiders House – By Paul Bowles
• The Sheltering Sky – By Paul Bowles (Book & Film)
• Let It Come Down – By Paul Bowles
• The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco –  By Richard Hamilton
• Their Heads are Green & Their Hands are Blue – By Paul Bowles
• Dreams of Trespass: Tales of A Harem –  By Fatima Mernissi
• Berber Odes: Poetry from the Mountains of Morocco – By Michael Peyron
• The Hamadsha: A Studio of Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry
• A House in Fes –  By Susannah Clarke
• For Bread Alone – By Mohammed Choukri
• The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco – Richard Hamilton
• The Mountains Look on Marrakech – Hamish Brown
• The Exile – By Abdullah Laroui
• The Game of Forgetting – By Mohammed Berrada
• Hideous Kinki – By Esther Freud
• Leaving Tangier – By Tahar Ben Jelloun
• The Red City – By Barnaby Rogerson & Stephen Lavington
• Shadows of Marrakech – By Philip Brebner

DESIGN & DÉCOR 

• Living in Morocco: (German Edition) – By Barbara Stoeltie
• Moroccan Interiors  – By Lisa Lovatt-Smith
• Living in Morocco from Casablanca to Marrakesh – By Lisl Dennis and Landt Dennis
• New Moroccan Style: The Art of Sensual Living – By Susan Sully
• Moroccan Textile Embroidery – By Isabelle Denamur
• Berber Carpets of Morocco. The Symbols. Origina and Meaning By Bruno Barbatti
• Imazighen: The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women – By Margaret Courtney-Clarke and Geraldine Brooks

MOROCCAN MUSIC  (Available on Amazon.com or I-Tunes Apple Store)

• Andalusian Music from Fes By Abdelkrim Rais
• Andalusian Music from Tangier By Cheik Ahmed Zaitouni
• Jilala: Sufi Trance Music from Morocco By Jilala
• Music of Islam 5: Aissaoua Sufi Ceremony By Music of Islam
• Under the Moroccan Sky  – Various Artists
• B’ismillah – Fes Festival of World Music
• Berber Blues By Cherifa
• The Master Musicians of Jajouka Featuring Bachir Attar
• The Master Musicians of Jajouka – Jajouka Between the Mountains
• Baptism of Solitude – By Paul Bowles and Bill Laswell (Spoken Word)
• Arabic Groove – Putumayo World Music
• Rough Guide to North African Café
• Rough Guide to Arabic Café
• Gift of the Gnaoua – Hassan Hakmoun & Adam Rudolph
• Berber Music from the High Atlas & Anti-Atlas

FILMS SHOT IN MOROCCO

• Othelle (Orson Welles)
• Flight to Tangier  (Charles Marquis Warren)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much, starring * James Stewart
• Lawrence of Arabia, started Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif
• The Jewel of the Nile, Directed by Lewis Teague, starred Michael Douglas
• Kundun, directed by Martin Scorsese
• Hideous Kinky (Marrakech Express)
• Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, starred Russell Crowe
• Rules of Engagement, directed by William Friedkin, starred Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and Guy Pearce
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