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Tangier: From the Romans to The Rolling Stones

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Language
English
Publishers
Tauris Parke (13 Jun. 2024)
Weight
0.22 KG
Publication Date
13/06/2024
ISBN-10
075565451X
Pages
320 pages
ISBN-13
9780755654512
Dimensions
12.9 x 1.7 x 19.81 cm
SKU
9780755654512
Author Name
Richard Hamilton (Author)
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In this first guide to Tangier's extraordinary cultural history , former BBC North Africa correspondent Richard Hamilton explores the city to find out what has inspired so many international writers, artists and musicians. In Tangier, the Moroccan novelist Mohamed Choukri wrote, ‘everything is surreal and everything is possible.

’ In this intimate portrait, Hamilton explores hotels, cafés, alleyways and the city's darkest secrets. 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 Sky and Naked Lunch.

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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