PERRIER, Amelia.

A Winter in Morocco.

Name: A Winter in Morocco.
Brand: PERRIER, Amelia.
SKU: 122259
Price: 1035.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Stock Code 122259

London, Henry S. King & Co., 1873.

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Scarce narrative of a journey to Tangier, Morocco, by an Irish woman author. Amelia Perrier (1841–1875) reveals the life in Tangier unlike most of the travel accounts of her day, expressing the breadth of experience with transparency rather than obscurity, being especially scathing of the presence of all three religious institutions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) as 'perfectly untainted by common-sense'. Chapters include: education, theatre, Ramadan, weddings, Christian missions, horse riding, local saints, Purim and Passover, and slavery.

First edition; 8vo (19.5 x 13.5 cm); 4 plates including frontispiece, title vignette, discreet stamp to front free endpaper; publisher's original decorated orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, a little rubbed, a very good copy; viii, 365 pp.

Provenance

Provenance: W.H. Smith Library (stamp).

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