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Tangier: From the Romans to The Rolling Stones

Autor Richard Hamilton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iul 2022
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, cafés, 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.' Yet, throughout the centuries, it has also been a crucible of creativity. It was a turning point in Henri Matisse's artistic journey and had a profound impact on the founder of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones. Tangier also produced two of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century:The Sheltering SkyandNakedLunch. Besides Paul Bowles and William Burroughs, the book also looks at lesser known characters such as the flawed genius, Brion Gysin, as well as Ibn Battuta, who travelled three times further than Marco Polo. Featuring a thrilling cast of pirates, sultans, artists, musicians, writers, princes and playboys, this is an essential read about Tangier.
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ISBN-13: 9781788317573
ISBN-10: 1788317572
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 16pp colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Tauris Parke
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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No other cultural history of Tangier

Notă biografică

Richard Hamilton has worked for the BBC World Service as a broadcast journalist since 1998, including being a correspondent in Morocco, South Africa and Madagascar. He also reports for BBC TV, radio and online. While living in Morocco, he co-authored theTime Out Guide to Marrakechand has written throughout his career for magazines and newspapers such asConde Nast TravellerandThe Cape Times. He has an MA in African Studies from SOAS.