The Magic of Morocco

The magic of Morocco has enticed many visitors to its people and places. Eugene Delacroix and Henri Matisse created some essential works there. Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac all responded to the magnetic pull of Morocco -- its promising smiles, its heady mix of passions, its colors and beauties, the music of the snake-charmer, the dust and perfume in the air, the curves of dunes as far as the eye can see. The magic of Morocco is a kind of poison, yet it is the sweetest of poisons.<p>Photography has no parallel as a recorder of the split seconds of emotion and sensation, and the photographers who have brought back the striking images in this book have themselves been drawn to Morocco from many different countries and cultures.