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.A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria
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by: Annie Hawes

April 04, 2008
Thoroughly 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.
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.Algeria (Country Guides)
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by: Jonathan Oakes

March 15, 2008
Thoroughly 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.
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.A Traveller's History of North Africa: From Carthage to Casablanca
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by: Barnaby Rogerson

June 26, 2008
Thoroughly 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.
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.Algeria (Lonely Planet Country Guide)
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by: Anthony Ham, Anthony Sattin, Nana Luckham

August 01, 2007
I am planning a trip to Algeria in the next few months and was pleased to see that Lonely planet had at last produced a comprehensive guide to the country. For me it is concise and very readable but better than that I gave it to my Algerian boyfriend who read it from cover to cover. He confirms that the books is interesting and accurate.

The book covers not only tourist trails but the history of the country including the tragic war with France, the food and art. This is the essential book for travel to this part of the world - indeed I believe it is the only book.
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.Algeria-Tunisia (Michelin National Maps)
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from: Michelin Maps

July 01, 2007
I am planning a trip to Algeria in the next few months and was pleased to see that Lonely planet had at last produced a comprehensive guide to the country. For me it is concise and very readable but better than that I gave it to my Algerian boyfriend who read it from cover to cover. He confirms that the books is interesting and accurate.

The book covers not only tourist trails but the history of the country including the tragic war with France, the food and art. This is the essential book for travel to this part of the world - indeed I believe it is the only book.
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.Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg
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by: Jeremy Keenan

June 21, 2001
This is an excellent piece on the modern Tuareg in Algeria. It is hard to characterise the book as it is a story of the author's re-visit of the Tuareg after an absence of over twenty years, and clearly there have been many changes. It is predominantly a part-travel, part-historical and part-anthropological look at the Tuareg laced with diversionary looks at the vandalism of neolithic art sites by tourists and locals. The author, although no longer a spring chicken himself, is far from an armchair adventurer. He has a clear soft spot for the Tuareg and this makes them so much more real. There are also some points of high drama, which I will not spoil here, and the modern Tuareg who still live semi-nomadically have not lost their skills of ... Read More:
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.The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
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by: Isabel Eberhardt

2003-04
With the current climate of religious and sectarian fear tightening like a noose around the neck of the western world, and with the limitations on freedom created by our neocolonial outrages, Isabelle Eberhardt's sensitive, introspective and emotionally charged story is of ever greater relevance. Those who are familiar with her subversion of gender roles, her conversion to Islam, the liberty and abandon with which she lived her life, and above all the well of despair she turned into a creative font, will find The Nomad an accessible and illuminating edition of her diaries, with superb editing plucking precious gems from a substantial body of work. Equally those who have never heard of Eberhardt will find her story to be at once uplifting and terribly ... Read More:
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.In Quest of Lost Worlds: Journey to Algeria, Ethiopia, Yucatan and Beyond
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by: Byron De Prorok

December 31, 2002
With the current climate of religious and sectarian fear tightening like a noose around the neck of the western world, and with the limitations on freedom created by our neocolonial outrages, Isabelle Eberhardt's sensitive, introspective and emotionally charged story is of ever greater relevance. Those who are familiar with her subversion of gender roles, her conversion to Islam, the liberty and abandon with which she lived her life, and above all the well of despair she turned into a creative font, will find The Nomad an accessible and illuminating edition of her diaries, with superb editing plucking precious gems from a substantial body of work. Equally those who have never heard of Eberhardt will find her story to be at once uplifting and terribly ... Read More:
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.North Africa: Gibraltar, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisa, the Pelagie Islands and Malta
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by: RCC Pilotage Foundation

June 29, 2005
With the current climate of religious and sectarian fear tightening like a noose around the neck of the western world, and with the limitations on freedom created by our neocolonial outrages, Isabelle Eberhardt's sensitive, introspective and emotionally charged story is of ever greater relevance. Those who are familiar with her subversion of gender roles, her conversion to Islam, the liberty and abandon with which she lived her life, and above all the well of despair she turned into a creative font, will find The Nomad an accessible and illuminating edition of her diaries, with superb editing plucking precious gems from a substantial body of work. Equally those who have never heard of Eberhardt will find her story to be at once uplifting and terribly ... Read More:
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.Narrative of a Residence in Algiers: Comprising a Geographical and Historical Account of the Regency, Biographical Sketches of the Dey and his Ministers, ... the Barbary States with the Christian Powers
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by: Filippo Pananti

August 16, 2002
With the current climate of religious and sectarian fear tightening like a noose around the neck of the western world, and with the limitations on freedom created by our neocolonial outrages, Isabelle Eberhardt's sensitive, introspective and emotionally charged story is of ever greater relevance. Those who are familiar with her subversion of gender roles, her conversion to Islam, the liberty and abandon with which she lived her life, and above all the well of despair she turned into a creative font, will find The Nomad an accessible and illuminating edition of her diaries, with superb editing plucking precious gems from a substantial body of work. Equally those who have never heard of Eberhardt will find her story to be at once uplifting and terribly ... Read More:
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