Marrakesh (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 119 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.26 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.26 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 119 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 120 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 72 pages. Illustrated. Robin Hallett "The Lure Of Africa II Ethiopia" / Nicholas Wollaston "Foreign Devil With Camera: A Visit To Chungking" / H Dennis Jones "Travel Notes: Marrakesh" / John Tyson "Exploring Nepal's Remote West" (BT#47).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 97 pages. Dominic Cooper "Jack Fletcher" (story) / Elias Canetti "Voices of Marrakesh" / James P O'Donnell "Charlie Chaplin, Adolf Hitler & Napoleon" / Judy Adamson & Philip Stratford "Looking for the Third Man".

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bonne Condition. Minor cover wear. Pages are clean and free of writing and or highlighting.

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 112 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Condition: New. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Bianisotropics 2002 - 9th International Conference, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, 8-11 May 2002 Editor(s): Zouhdi, Said (Unviersite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France); Sihvola, Ari; Arsalane, Mohamed (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco). Series: NATO Science Series II. Num Pages: 485 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1540. . 2003. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002. Paperback. . . . .

Condition: New. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Bianisotropics 2002 - 9th International Conference, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, 8-11 May 2002 Editor(s): Zouhdi, Said (Unviersite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France); Sihvola, Ari; Arsalane, Mohamed (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco). Series: NATO Science Series II. Num Pages: 485 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1540. . 2003. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

audioCD. Condition: Wie neu. Seiten; CD - 20165d 3B-VWJY-5GY8 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Lyon, Francis Bererd, 1960. Sm.8vo. original wrappers. With large folding coloured plan and double-page map. 32 pp. Collection des Guides Pol.

Good; filled worming with virtually no impact on printed image. Margins reinstated at upper left and right, outside of printed image. Else very good. Size 15.5 x 21 Inches. This is Livio Sanuto's rare and beautiful 1588 map of central Morocco, focusing on Marrakesh and the area lying between the Oum Er-Rbia and the Sous Rivers. The map depicts the rugged western end of the Atlas Mountains with details drawn almost exclusively from the reports of the Berber-Andalusi traveler, diplomat, and author Johannes Leo Africanus (1494 - 1554). It is moreover a strikingly beautiful engraving, a masterwork of Livio's brother Giulio, who engraved all twelve of the maps comprising their atlas of Africa. A New Map Though the region had appeared in Ptolemaic geographies and in the works of Gastaldi and Ortelius, Sanuto's map of the lands around Marrakesh was unique in its detail. While Sanuto's map is not the only one to draw on Leo Africanus as a source - Gastaldi and Ortelius also did so - Sanuto was the only 16th-century map to detail this region at this scale. He was also unique in his specific interpretation of Africanus' written reports, and the resulting map resembles no other until it was copied by Sanson in the 17th century. Sanuto's depiction of the continent throughout the twelve maps of his atlas of Africa differed sharply from any contemporaneous map of those areas, the result of his thorough reconsideration of African geography in the light of both conventional and newly available sources - marking it as a unique and underappreciated masterpiece of geographical thought. While not all of his descriptions can have derived from firsthand contact, Leo Africanus' work as a diplomat had brought him as far afield in Africa as Timbuktu, and as a resident of Fez the lands around Marrakesh would have been known to him. It is reasonable that most of this information as found here was the fruit of actual visits. On The Map Leo Africanus' observations reflect the situation after 1513 but before 1518. The Portuguese capture of the port of Azemmour and their influence down the coast at the expense of the Wattasid Dynasty can be seen. Albeit filtered through Latin, many of the original Arabic names can be discerned (for example, Ommirabibus for the river Oum er-Rbia). The map becomes less accurate the further it reaches into and beyond the Atlas Mountains, but nevertheless provides a clear representation of the best account of this part of the world. A Bright Light, Dimmed As published, Sanuto's work was the first such book dedicated solely to Africa. This was not the author's intent, as the work was but one volume of a twelve-volume global geography. If Sanuto were to have applied the same fresh thought to other regions that he applied to Africa, the result would certainly have been an atlas to eclipse that of Ortelius. As it happened, Livio died in 1576 before producing the other volumes, likely a victim of the plague. The completed volume - the set of Africa maps - was published posthumously in 1588, in a single edition. Thus, despite the detail and beauty of Sanuto's Africa maps, they achieved scant recognition. Dutch Golden Age mapmakers instead copied Ortelius's less refined mapping. Improved maps of the African interior did not appear until the 1670s and 80s, with the work of Du Val, Ludolf, and Coronelli. Of Sanuto's work, Bifolco and Ronca offer high praise: .The description of Africa is the best of the sixteenth century and the maps represent a happy synthesis of all the elements then available; hence it is legitimate to conclude that if Sanuto had succeeded in completing the entire work, we would have in it one of the greatest monuments of geography in the period of the Renaissance. Publication History and Census This map was composed by Livio Sanuto, and engraved by his brother Giulio for inclusion in their Geografia di M Livio Sanuto Distinta in XII Libri , of which only the Africa volume was published. It is not known when exactly.