Casablanca Notebook: A Collection of Tales from Morocco [Paperback]

Louise Roberts Sheldon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 17, 2002

Morocco! Out of the Orient, into Africa... Vignettes of Life and Adventure... A War Correspondent's Story. Non-Fiction. Fully Returnable.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Unlimited Publishing; 2 edition (June 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588320618
• ISBN-13: 978-1588320612
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,895,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars CASABLANCA NOTEBOOK, by Louise Roberts Sheldon, November 27, 2002

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Ted Mason , Foreign Service Officer, retired ... (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casablanca Notebook: A Collection of Tales from Morocco (Paperback)

A fascinating peek at a very foreign land by a seasoned reporter and illustrator who lived there for a total of eight years.Louise Sheldon grew to know and love Morocco and its people in a way that few journalists or diplomat's wives (and she is both)are permitted or qualified to do. The period between 1975 and 1996 was one of critical importance in the history of the Arab world, and King Hassan II's pro-Western stance encouraged all manner of contacts with Amaricans. This book is the fruit of that policy. she traveled from the circles of wealth and power to the far corners of the country and even into the Western Sahara to witness the fighting between Moroccan forces and the Algerian-backed Polisario. Her eyes saw the big picture and the small with equal clarity and sympathy, and her portraits of the little people, Arab and Berber, ring true. From the hazards of inter-cultural city marriages to the intricate rituals of a Berber wedding in the High Atlas she takes us with her on a voyage of discovery. We envy her, and so will those who share in her adventures by reading this fresh and entertaining account.