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Lädt ... Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeriavon Annie Hawes
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I enjoy Annie Hawes' books for her honesty, her constant enthusiasm and her interest in people and things and the humour she finds in situations. Annie Hawes travels first in Morocco and then in Algeria with two male friends, who are both crucial and shadowy. Together they accept hospitality from strangers and give glimpses in to a faraway world, where she constantly finds links through stories, myths and gestures to the European world we are familiar with. I learnt a lot from this book and although it is quite a dense read it was engaging. ( ) Bought 12 Sep 2008 (Amazon?) Another installment in Hawes' eventful life as she goes off to Morocco and Algeria with two French friends. This book made me long for Tunisia - the landscape, people and food are very similar. Hawes is not afraid to face up to sexism, militant religion and the myriad ways an Englishwoman travelling with two French men can confuse and offend, but she is also warm, full of love for the countryside and the people, and a great conjurer-up of atmosphere. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
An hilarious and thought-provoking new travel book from the bestselling author of Extra VirginAiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. Travelling through Morocco and Algeria she eats pigeon pie with a family of cannabis farmers, and learns about the habits of djinns; she encounters citizens whose protest against the tyrannical King Hassan takes the form of attaching colanders to their television aerials - a practice he soon outlaws - and comes across a stone-age method of making olive-oil, still going strong. She allows a ten-year-old to lead her into the fundamentalist strongholds of the suburbs of Algiers - where she makes a good friend. Plunging southwards, regardless, into the desert, she at last shares a lunch of salt-cured Saharan haggis with her old friends, in a green and pleasant palm grove perfumed by flowering henna: once, it seems, the favourite scent of the Prophet Mohammed. She discovers at journey's end that life in a date-farming oasis, haunting though its songs may be, is not so simple and uncomplicated as she has imagined. Annie Hawes has legions of fans. Her writing has the well-built flow of fiction and the self-effacing honesty of a journal. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)916.1045History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Africa Tunisia; Libya; The Maghreb GenerallyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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