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A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco

10 best books like A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco (Suzanna Clarke): Secret Son, Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956, The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road, Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China, Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

Secret Son
AuthorLaila Lalami
ISBN1565124944
Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of nineteen, is living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca when he discovers that the father he believed to be dead is, in fact, alive and eager to befriend and support him. Leaving his mother behind, Youssef assumes a life he could only dream of: a famous and influential...
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
AuthorGavin Maxwell
ISBN1585746339
Set in the medieval city of Marrakesh and the majestic kasbahs of the High Atlas mountains, `Lords of the Atlas' tells the extraordinary story of the Madani and T'hami el Glaoui, warlord brothers who carved out a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century. Quislings of the French...
The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
AuthorAlden Jones
ISBN0299295702
Through personal journeys both interior and across the globe, Alden Jones investigates what motivates us to travel abroad in search of the unfamiliar. By way of explorations to Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, and around the world on a ship, Jones chronicles her experience...
Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey
AuthorAlison Wearing
ISBN0312263449
With a love of travel, Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend, in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon, Wearing set out on her own at every available opportunity. She went looking for what lay beneath the...
Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa
AuthorTanya Shaffer
ISBN1400032598
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
AuthorTim Mackintosh-Smith
ISBN0330491148
Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for 29 years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include and Islamic Butlin's...
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road
AuthorChristopher Aslan Alexander
ISBN1848311257
"Most travelogues chart a journey, but in this case it is the author's decision to stay put that lifts his book out of the ordinary."--"Lonely Planet Magazine"Accompanied by a large parrot, a ginger cat, and his adoptive Uzbek family, Christopher Aslan Alexander recounts the sheer magic of Uzbek culture...
Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
AuthorAminta Arrington
ISBN1590208994
When all-American Aminta Arrington moves from suburban Georgia to a small town in China, she doesn't go alone. Her army husband and three young children, including an adopted Chinese daughter, uproot themselves too. Aminta hopes to understand the country with its long civilization, ancient philosophy,...
Meeting Mr Kim: Or How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi
AuthorJennifer Barclay
ISBN1840246766
The world knows more about secret North Korea than the free society of the South. As a peace summit heralded a new era for a country divided for 50 years, Jennifer Barclay searched for the spirit of South Korea, discovering a land full of passion, tradition and spirituality, good humor, and great food....
In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
AuthorTahir Shah
ISBN0553805231
Tahir Shah’s The Caliph’s House, describing his first year in Casablanca, was hailed by critics and compared to such travel classics as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun. Now Shah takes us deeper into the heart of this exotic and magical land to uncover mysteries that have been hidden from...
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
AuthorKira Salak
ISBN0792274571
After 37 years of never reading about Mali, I have managed two books about that country in the last month. The previous book (The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) gave more information about the history of the region, and informed my reading...
Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella
AuthorDavid Shalleck
ISBN0767920481
“Saturday was dawning warm, with only a gentle wind under a light blue sky as we got under way. . . . With the motor cut out, I could hear the whispered splash of the sea against the hull as we knifed through the Mediterranean. The calming noise, along with the gentle rocking, lulled me into a Zen calm as...
All Over the Map
AuthorLaura Fraser
ISBN0307450635
What's a wise, witty travel writer to do when she reaches forty and is still single? Wander the globe searching for romance and adventure, of course.

On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique trajectory of her life. Divorced and childless...
Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for Women Who Are Changing the World
AuthorHolly Morris
ISBN0375760636
After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited...
It's Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels
AuthorPolly Evans
ISBN0385339925
Single, stressed, and living amid the hustle and hurry of modern Hong Kong, Polly Evans had a vision: of mountains and orange groves, matadors and promenades–and of a glorious, hassle-free journey across Spain by bicycle. But like any decent dream, Polly’s came with its own reality: of thighs...
The Best American Travel Writing 2008
AuthorAnthony Bourdain
ISBN0618858644
In his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that “spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side, those moments fearful, sublime, and absurd; the small epiphanies familiar to the full-time traveler,...
The Best American Travel Writing 2010
AuthorBill Buford
ISBN0547333358
Hit and miss... I definitely enjoyed some stories quite a bit, but skimmed or skipped others. I'm always afraid reading travel books is going to further stoke my wanderlust (more out of control than it already is, anyway) but amusingly it often has the opposite effect, especially when I read stories...
First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army
AuthorPeter Eichstaedt
ISBN1556527993
“Richard Opio has neither the look of a cold-blooded killer nor the heart of one. Yet as his mother and father lay on the ground with their hands tied, Richard used the blunt end of an ax to crush their skulls.  He was ordered to do this by a unit commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group that...
A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria
AuthorAnnie Hawes
ISBN0330457225
An hilarious and thought-provoking new travel book from the bestselling author of Extra Virgin.
Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves of Italy...
Diplomatic Baggage
AuthorBrigid Keenan
ISBN0719567262
When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together - with most things going horribly awry while being obliged to keep the straightest face and put their best...
In Morocco
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1426445997
In 1917, amid the turmoil of World War I, Edith Wharton, the author of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, travelled to Morocco. A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is her account of this journey through the country's cities and through its deserts. The Ecco Travels edition of In Morocco brings...
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
AuthorFatema Mernissi
ISBN0201489376
This "wonderful and enchanting" memoir tells the revelatory true story of one Muslim girl's life in her family's French Moroccan harem, set against the backdrop of World War II (The New York Times Book Review).

"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..."

So begins Fatima Mernissi...
Pretty Woman Spitting: An American's Travels in China
AuthorLeanna Adams
The book is part memoir, part travelogue and a compelling and often hilarious account of an evolving Chinese society and a woman at a crossroads. Leanna Adams moved to China in 2006, was nearly robbed, held her co-worker’s hand as she died in a filthy, smoke-filled hospital, bonded with many of her...
Safari: A Memoir of a Worldwide Travel Pioneer
AuthorGeoffrey Kent
ISBN0062299204
Enter for a chance to win a finished copy of this breathtaking travel memoir and adventure guide, in which the legendary founder of the world’s premier luxury travel company, Abercrombie & Kent, takes readers on a whirlwind tour around the globe, sharing his best-kept secrets and the story of...
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