Lords of the Atlas: Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956 (Century travellers) - Softcover

Maxwell, Gavin

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9780099729006: Lords of the Atlas: Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956 (Century travellers)

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ISBN 10: 0099729008 ISBN 13: 9780099729006

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1991

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In 1893 Moulay Hassan, Sultan of Morocco, presented Madani, Chief of the Glaoua, with a ponderous Krupp cannon. From that moment, the history of the country changed, and this is an account of the meteoric and bloody rise to power of the Glaoua, once an obscure tribe in the High Atlas Mountains. Under Sultan Moulay Abd El Aziz, spendthrift and decadent, El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakesh, became a legendary feudal figure and the survivor of fierce internecine rivalries. It was El Glaoui who, shortly before attending Elizabeth II's coronation in London, ordered the severed heads of his enemies to be mounted on his gates. Drawing on the work of Walter Harris, a "Times" correspondent who could - and did - pass as an Arab, the author has set out to recreate this history of characters, action, intrigue and remote and exotic places.

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"Contains may superb color photographs that enhance Maxwell's lively narrative."--"Library Journal"

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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)

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