Morocco - Lonely Planet 10e édition - Bainbridge James

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Résumé :
Morocco exudes Maghrebi mystique, with medina lanes leading to souqs and riads, camels disappearing into the Sahara and Berber villages perched in the High Atlas. Grab a mint tea and enjoy the show", James Bainbridge, Lonely Planet writer.

Biographie:
James Bainbridge's travel-writing career began a decade ago with a trip to Morocco. Taking a break from magazine journalism in London, he passed through the country on an overland mission to Timbuktu (and back). Since the resultant article for the Guardian, James has written about Africa and the Middle East for worldwide publications, including Lonely Planet guides from Turkey to West Africa. Morocco has drawn him back several times since that initial foray, and he continues to sing its praises with the passion of a Gnawa musician. When he's not researching Anti Atlas grand-taxi fares, James lives in Cape Town. When she's not methodically sampling every mechoui lamb roast in Marrakesh, diligently inspecting riad rooftop sunsets or personally testing hammam steam levels, Alison Bing co-authors Lonely Planet's California, USA and Italy guides. Alison has a background in Islamic art, architecture and North African political economy from the American University in Cairo, and holds a masters degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a program of Tufts and Harvard Universities - respectable diplomatic credentials she regularly undermines with opinionated art, food and culture commentary for newspapers, magazines and radio. As a student, Paul Clammer had his first solo backpacking experience when he took a bus from his Cambridgeshire home to Casablanca. After an interlude where he trained and worked as a molecular biologist, he returned to work as a tour guide, trekking in the Atlas and trying not to lose passengers in the Fez medina. The increasing number of budget airline routes from the UK to Morocco is one of his favourite recent travel innovations and he hops over to Morocco on a regular basis. Helen Ranger moved to Fez in 2004 and has been writing about Morocco ever since. Contributing to Lonely Planet's Fez Encounter and "The View from Fez" blog, she is fascinated by Morocco's diversity. Helen checked out chic city boulevards, untangled Tangier's medina, scrambled down a Beni Snassen mountainside, kicked back in Chefchaouen and enjoyed the curiosities (and tapas bars) of Ceuta and Melilla. She lives in a 400-year-old traditional house where she'll remain until she never gets lost in the Fez medina.