The Caliph's House

Informationen zum Autor Tahir Shah was born into an Anglo-Afghan family, with roots in the mountain stronghold of the Hindu Kush. Shah's ten books have chronicled a series of fabulous journeys. He lives with his wife and two children in Casablanca. Visit his website: www.tahirshah.com Klappentext By turns hilarious and harrowing, this work by an acclaimed English travel writer is the story of his family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge--and nothing is as easy as it seems. Zusammenfassung Look into the eyes of a jinn and you stare into the depths of your own soul... Writer and film-maker Tahir Shah - in his 30s, married, with two small children - was beginning to wilt under brash, cramped, ennervating British city life.

Product details

• Authors: Tahir Shah
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9780553816808
• ISBN: 978-0-553-81680-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Bantam Paperbacks; Bantam Paperbacks
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Africa; Marokko : Belletristik (Romane, Erzählungen), TRAVEL / General, TRAVEL / Pictorials, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works