Tangier

From the Romans to the Rolling Stones

Richard Hamilton

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I B TAURIS
19 August 2019

African history; Travel & holiday

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 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.

By: Richard Hamilton
Imprint: I B TAURIS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 656g
ISBN: 9781784533434
ISBN 10: 1784533432
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 19 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements 1 Hercules 2 Quintus Sertorius 3 Ibn Battuta 4 Samuel Pepys 5 Walter Harris 6 Henri Matisse 7 Paul Bowles 8 William Burroughs 9 Brion Gysin 10 Francis Bacon 11 Joe Orton 12 Mohamed Mrabet 13 Brian Jones Postscript Select Bibliography Index Color Plates

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 the Time Out Guide to Marrakech and has written throughout his career for magazines and newspapers such as Conde Nast Traveller and The Times. He has an MA in African Studies from SOAS.

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Tangier

From the Romans to the Rolling Stones

Richard Hamilton

$39.99

Hardback

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