A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and

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A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria

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 and sets off along the south coast of the Mediterranean. Travelling through Morocco and Algeria she eats pigeon pie with a family of cannabis farmers, and learns about the habits of djinns; she encounters citizens whose protest against the tyrannical King Hassan takes the form of attaching colanders to their television aerials - a practice he soon outlaws - and comes across a stone-age method of making olive-oil, still going strong. She allows a ten-year-old to lead her into the fundamentalist strongholds of the suburbs of Algiers - where she makes a good friend.Plunging southwards, regardless, into the desert, she at last shares a lunch of salt-cured Saharan haggis with her old friends, in a green and pleasant palm grove perfumed by flowering henna: once, it seems, the favourite scent of the Prophet Mohammed. She discovers at journey's end that life in a date-farming oasis, haunting though its songs may be, is not so simple and uncomplicated as she has imagined.
Country USA
Brand Pan
Manufacturer Pan Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber B00J1Z9WWC_msa
Model 26108305
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780330457224
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Pan
Manufacturer	Pan Publishing
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	B00J1Z9WWC_msa
Model	26108305
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780330457224
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

A Handful of Honey: Away to the Palm Groves of Morocco and Algeria

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