Dimensions
141 x 224 x 32mm
The Draa Valley, where Morocco meets the Sahara, is a place of astonishing natural beauty, jewelled with the remains of the ancient casbahs of ochre-coloured clay. From the moonscape gorges of the Anti-Atlas mountains to the mosaic of dunes that mark the domain of the Bedouin, it is an area of sumptuous oases and searing desert.
In 'Valley Of The Casbahs', Jeffrey Tayler describes his epic trip to follow the Draa from source to sea, travelling in nomadic style on foot and camel.
Along the way, Tayler finds time to muse on the sexual mores of the Ruhhal or desert tribes. He considers the struggle between rationalism of the modern world and the fatalism of the desert dweller, for whom sickness, drought and death are matters for God to decide. And, most of all, he reflects on the inevitable decline of the nomadic way of life, and with it the virtues of simplicity, hospitality and comradeship he'd sought from his journey.
