TANGIER. From The Romans to the Rolling Stones
London, Published by Tauris Parke. 2019. Royal 8vo. pp.xiv + 300, bibliography, index illustrations in colour and black & white. Original blue hardcover in pictorial complete dust wrapper.Fine copy.,
Small inscription to title page This copy flat signed by Author on title page. Item #194209
"In Tangier, the Moroccan novelist Mohamed Choukri wrote, 'everything is surreal and everything is possible.'
In this intimate portrait of a city, the former BBC North Africa correspondent, Richard Hamilton, explores its hotels, cafes, alleyways and darkest secrets to find out what it is that has inspired so many international writers, artists and musicians.
Delving down through complex historical layers, he finds a frontier town that is comic, confounding and haunted by the ghosts of its past. Samuel Pepys thought God should destroy Tangier and St Francis of Assisi called it a city of 'madness and delusions"
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