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A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria by: Annie Hawes List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £3.99 You Save: £4.00 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 916.1045 EAN: 9780330457224 ISBN: 0330457225 Label: Pan Books Manufacturer: Pan Books Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: April 04, 2008 Publisher: Pan Books Studio: Pan Books Sales Rank: 5398 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A good read - by Rose S BrownThoroughly enjoyable read. I find Annie Hawes impressive in the extreme in that she really knows her subject and her reader! I loved my travels with her but sadly missed the de Giglio family and all her Italian friends. I learned an awful lot about women of Islam and how they cope with the extremes of this religion. Annie presents a book which is humourous and yet holds the dignity of the way of life and customs of the land she travels in. Rating: - An intriguing voyage of discoveryAt the age of sixteen Annie Hawes was deported from Portugal and sent home to England. On the way, she was adopted by a family of Algerians heading for Paris, who came from Timimoun in Algeria, a date-farming oasis deep in the Sahara. Years later, when two friends ask her to join them on a trip through Morocco and Algeria, Annie decided to go, and to seek out her old friends from Timimoun; this book is the outcome. Annie Hawes writes in an engaging, confessional style - familiar to fans of her first book Extra Virgin - and her grasp of history and politics, particularly in relation to the Islamic world, is impressive without ever sounding pedantic. She travels close to the ground, describing what she sees with affection and an open mind, but ... Read More: Rating:  - A refreshing and very funny read, and a book that will truly inspire you. For anyone who would love to escape humdrum rainy Britain for warmth, sunshine and a totally different, unknown culture - but don't quite dare - this is it. Smell the spices, taste the food, live the sun-drenched landscapes and the shady courtyards all the way from the Mediterranean to the Sahara, enjoy the great company of Annie and the wonderful people she meets as she travels all across Morocco and Algeria on a shoestring. Everyone there seems happy to take an unknown wanderer (or three) into their hearts and their homes, right from day one - even if she and her companions don't quite know which is the correct hand to eat with, can't manage to crouch politely on their haunches throughout a whole meal, or follow the intricacies of Ramadan ... Read More: Rating: - Sticky title, great book!I loved Annie Hawes earlier books on Italy, and having just got back from Morocco myself, I got hold of this one as soon as it came out. She clearly relished her time in North Africa. Handful of Honey is a kaleidoscope of fascinating characters and quirky encounters, each giving some new insight into North African reality. She portrays a lively, bustling world of colourful individuals with senses of humour as acute as her own. There are holy saints and dangerous djinns; there are ordinary, everyday people doing their best to make ends meet, Maghreb style; there are many hints at a long colonial history, as well as a noble pre-colonial past. There are also many deliciously spicy foodstuffs, prepared in extraordinary ways and in unlikely places: ... Read More: Rating: - Reg Srikes BackAt long last Annie Hawes is back with an extemely gripping observative, insightful and at the same time painful tale of her round the world trips. Worth every breath and every comma and full stops. She's back to her best and the book is definately the second best after her Master Piece "Extra Virgin". The italian echoes are as far as distant memories. A standing ovation and an "ancore" to this very suggestive and evocative writer. |
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