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Author Harris, Walter, 1866-1933.

Title Tafilet : the narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the oases of the North-West Sahara / Walter B. Harris.

Imprint Reading, U.K. : Garnet Publishing, 2009

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Location Call No. Status
 CCQ - Lusail Female Library  DT309 H31 2009    Available
 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  DT309    Available
Edition New ed.
Description 386 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Series The folios archive library
Folios archive library.
Note "First published in 1895 by W. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London."
Includes index.
"This book has been photographed from the original first edition."
Contents I. PREPARATIONS AND START --- II. MARAKESH --- III. THE ASCENT OF THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS --- IV. THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS AND THE BERBERS --- V. THE DESCENT FROM THE ATLAS --- VI. GHRESAT TO DADS --- VII. DADS --- VIII. DADS TO UL TURUG --- IX. OUR ARR
Summary "First published in 1895, this book recounts the author's 1893 expedition to the Tafilet oasis in Morocco, one of the largest oases in the world. Previously largely inaccessible (before the invention of the motor car it was at least 10 days' jou
Subject Atlas Mountains -- Description and travel.
Tafilalt (Morocco) -- Description and travel.
Morocco -- Description and travel.
Morocco -- History.
Morocco -- Social life and customs.
Added Title Narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the oases of the North-West Sahara
Other Form: Online version: Harris, Walter, 1866-1933. Tafilet. New ed. Reading, U.K. : Garnet Publishing, 2009 (OCoLC)761079007
ISBN 9781859642221 (pbk.)
1859642225 (pbk.)