Lords of the Atlas : The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956

Maxwell, Gavin

ISBN 10: 0330024361 / ISBN 13: 9780330024365

Published by Longmans, UK, 1970

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Superb account of Moroccan history. pp318. Dec.endpapers.

Seller Inventory # 004773

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lords of the Atlas : The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
• Publisher: Longmans, UK
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330024361
• ISBN 13: 9780330024365
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • 18 Box 13

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history

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Lords of the Atlas is a classic story of Morocco and the rise and spectacular fall of the House of Glaoua. Madini and T'hami El Glaoui, sons of a Moroccan Caid by an Ethiopian concubine, rose meteorically to power in the almost medieval state of Morocco at the end of the nineteenth Century. This is the epic story of the more than fifty years in which they governed the country in barbaric, ostentatious splendor, until their spectacular downfall in 1956. Out of the intriguing and dramatic lives of Madair and T'hami, Gavin Maxwell has fashioned an epic story set against the superb background of Marrakesh and the pinnacled castles of the High Atlas, still magnificent as crumbling ruins. A dramatic history of intrigue, action, and exotic places, and illustrated with over one hundred color illustrations and photographs, Lords of the Atlas is a stunning look at the rise and fall of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating rulers. (8 X 9 3/4, 276 pages, color photos, b&w photos, map, illustrations)