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Title: Pretty dry for a travel book
Review: I'm a huge fan of travel books plus a Moroccophile, so I thought this book would be just the ticket. Unfortunately the author's style is quite dry. He spends a great deal of time visiting tombs and non-existent shrines to saints. Really, it's quite boring. What about the food? The people? How the author (completely fluent in Arabic) manages to travel through such an interesting part of the world and not have daily random travel adventures is beyond me. I've had more adventure walking down the street to the produce shop.I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they were really into shrines or liked Arabic poetry.If you're looking for some great travel writing, try Bill Bryson's "In a Sunburned Country", Anthony Bourdain's "A Cook's Tour", or any of the short travel story collection books by Lonely Planet.
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